

“He lay with yellow hair and closed eyes, and the book thief ran toward him and fell down. She dropped the black book. "Rudy," she sobbed, "wake up...." She grabbed him by his shirt and gave him just the slightest disbelieving shake. "Wake up, Rudy," and now, as the sky went on heating and showering ash, Liesel was holding Rudy Steiner's shirt by the front. "Rudy, please." THe tears grappled with her face. "Rudy, please, wake up, Goddamn it, wake up, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on, Jesse Owens, don't you know I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up....”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief

“An inn, of course, was a place you came to at night (not at three o'clock in the afternoon), preferably a rainy night鈥攚ind, too, if it could be managed; and it should be situated on a moor (鈥渂leak,鈥 Kate knew, was the adjective here). And there should be scullions; mine host should be gravy-stained and broad in the beam with a tousled apron pulled across his stomach; and there should be a tall, dark stranger鈥攖he one who speaks to nobody鈥攚arming thin hands before the fire. And the fire should be a fire鈥攃rackling and blazing, laid with an impossible size log and roaring its great heart out up the chimney. And there should be some sort of cauldron, Kate felt, somewhere about鈥攁nd, perhaps, a couple of mastiffs thrown in for good measure.”
― The Borrowers Afield
― The Borrowers Afield

“Don鈥檛 ever take it for granted when people look into you鈥檙e eyes鈥 You鈥檝e no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it is an angry glare, because it鈥檚 when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.”
― If You Could See Me Now
― If You Could See Me Now

“He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime.”
― Let the Right One In
― Let the Right One In
“I will cover minor and major human settlements equally, because most of those which were important in the past have diminished in significance by now, and those which were great in my own time were small in times past. I will mention both equally because I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”
― The Histories
― The Histories
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