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All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.
— Markus Zusak The Book Thief
Tags: yellow, books, afternoon

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That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.
— Markus Zusak
Tags: writing, complaining
Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
— Markus Zusak The Book Thief
Tags: memory, life, faith, belief
He killed himself for wanting to live.
— Markus Zusak The Book Thief
Tags: suicide, life, death
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.
— Markus Zusak The Book Thief
Tags: war, death
The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.
— Markus Zusak The Book Thief
Tags: books
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