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Reread this for Popsugar Reading Challenge and it's still awfully good! Heartbreaking, beautiful, and memorable. Death is probably one of my most favorite narrators ever!! And since this is a rereading, I can savor the story a bit more slowly, and true, it's a tearjerker indeed.
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loc 357: "Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness."
loc 793: "Soon, they were on Himmel Street, carrying the words, the music, the washing."
loc 863: "(By the way, I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)"
loc 1013: "It's much easier, she realized to be on the verge of something than to actually be it."
loc 1754: "The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused ...more
loc 793: "Soon, they were on Himmel Street, carrying the words, the music, the washing."
loc 863: "(By the way, I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)"
loc 1013: "It's much easier, she realized to be on the verge of something than to actually be it."
loc 1754: "The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused ...more
really amazing book
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