It kills me sometimes, how people die. - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

"Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave."

"A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me."

"If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter."

"If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive."

"A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)"