Rudy, please, wake up. God damn 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...
Of course I told him about you, Liesel said. She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
Los jóvenes siguen siendo niños y los niños a veces tienen derecho a ser cabezotas.
Le gustaban los corrillos apretados y lo desconocido. La agridulce sensación de la incertidumbre: Ganar o perder.
Keep playing, Papa. Papa stopped.
I’m ready now. If he’d intervened, it might have
It's chaos out there, and chaos is what we need.
It was November 3 and the floor of the train held onto his feet
It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...
Is this yours?’ ‘Yes, Papa.’ ‘Do you want to read it?’ Again, ‘Yes, Papa.’ A tired smile. Metallic eyes, melting. ‘Well we’d better read it then.
In truth, I think he was afraid. Rudy Steiner was scared of the book thief's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So that he would never ask for her lip...
I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty and I wonder how the same can be both.
I wonder if she’ll ever know that no one will love her as hard as I do.
I walk out into the foyer. It’s caked in sunshine.
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.
I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing—that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, sw...
I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate. The
I am a result.