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Why would anyone choose to be more of a victim when his own brain chemistry was hurting him enough?
“I reached for our connection in hopes of understanding his emotions. Instead, I found only a wasteland. A completion, severed. An ending that could’ve been. And in that moment, I wished for all the pain in the realms, as nothing could be worse than the emptiness dividing our souls.”
― The Daughters of the Earth
― The Daughters of the Earth
“He knew it was foolish to hope. He might be of the right blood, but as his mother had reminded him so often, he would never be of the right heart.”
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“He was hanging from one of the rafters in a laundry up near Frau Diller’s. Another human pendulum. Another clock, stopped.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“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 ugliness and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it all right. You see? Even death has a heart.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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