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“Liesel and Papa made their way through the book, this man was traveling to Amsterdam on business and the snow was shivering outside. The girl loved that- the shivering snow. "That's exactly what it does when it comes down," she told Hans Hubermann.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“But I don't think that's the case for a lot of people. For a lot of people, for a lot the people I met in the bin, I think personal choice has very little to do with it.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“How life goes in bad directions when your heart is asleep.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“I loved kissing them on the mouth, the taste of their tongues. I think kissing is what separated us from the animals and makes us divine.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are-joy, tenderness, success beauty-but some bad things happen as well. Sometimes, very bad things happen. Children sicken and die. People we love don't love us, can never love us.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“We want to do something with the time we have, something that will give that time a certain meaning, a certain weight.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“We tend to go on loving the things the people who loved us loved. They are invested with soul, even if the people are long dead, even if they do not turn out to be who you thought they were.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“If you put a bunch of chameleons on top of a bunch of chameleons on top of a bowl of Skittles what would happen? Is that science? Because if so, I finally get why people want to do science.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things