The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

Those things happen when you wake from a bad dream, not when you wake into one.

Bt 1

shrugging of the shoulders to the problems and pleasures of a person’s time on earth.

Bt 2

A good hiding transcends the divides of age.

Bt 3

In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer—proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

Bt 4

The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time.

Bl 6