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• We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me.

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  Running, Laughing, Moments

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.155, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her, to love her. He came every night and sat with her. The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered, "Shhh, I'm here, it's all right." After three weeks he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. The girl knew from the outset that Hans Hubermann would always appear midscream, and he would not leave. (36)

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  Girl, Couple, Night

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• After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her knees to the road and suffered the penalty. He collected her punches as if they were presents. Her bony hands and elbows were accepted with nothing but a few short moans. He accumulated the loud, clumsy specks of saliva and tears as if they were lovely to his face, and more important, he was able to hold her down.

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  Girl, Boys, Doors

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• Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.

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  Forget, Paint, Behinds

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.356, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death

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  Promise, World, Sun

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.535, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Years, Evil, Water

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.166, RH Childrens Books

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• Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

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  Answers, World, Care

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.41, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A human doesn't have a heart like mine. 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. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

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  Heart, Circles, Envy

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.367, Random House

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• A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?

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  Worry, Doe, Facts

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• She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words? She said it audibly now, to the orange-lit room. "What good are the words?

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  Book, Feel Better, Orange

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.387, Random House

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• ..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.

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  Ice, Two, Water

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.164, RH Childrens Books

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• ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

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  Talent, Swear, Ferocity

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.59, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

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  Men, Brutes, Dues

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• A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand. He grinned. He stood waist-deep in the icy, Decemberish water. “How about a kiss, Saumensch?” he said.

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  Book, Kissing, Boys

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.241, RH Childrens Books

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• My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.

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  Voice, Not Sure, Rumours

  Markus Zusak (2015). “I Am the Messenger”, p.133, Random House

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• THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.

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  Max, Done, Lasts

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.389, RH Childrens Books

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• I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

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  Lying, Book, Heart

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2005.

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• People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.

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  Passing Moments, Clouds, Color

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.4, RH Childrens Books

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• for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.

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  Men, Dying, Answers

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.453, RH Childrens Books

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• Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me. There are many things to think of. There is much story.

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  Book, Thinking, Two

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.243, RH Childrens Books

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

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  Laughter, Knowing, Laughing

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.349, RH Childrens Books

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• She kept watching the words.

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• I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.

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  Stars, Eye, Two

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• Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.

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  Summer, Book, Color

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.342, RH Childrens Books

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• Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.

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  Real, Stories, Courses

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.354, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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