The Book Thief

Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness.

that one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

’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. Still, they have one thing that I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

This one was sent out by the breath of an accordion, the odd taste of champagne in summer, and the art of promise-keeping.