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“One wild card was yet to be played.”

Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

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The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

This novel is a historical fiction set in Nazi Germany during World War II. It follows the story of a young girl, Liesel Meminger, who is sent to live with a foster family after her parents are killed. Liesel becomes fascinated with books and begins to steal them, leading to a series of events that intertwine her life with those around her, including her foster family and the Jewish man she hides in their basement. more

Author

Markus Zusak

Markus Zusak, born on June 23, 1975, is an acclaimed Australian author known for his unique narrative style and profound thematic insights. His works have garnered widespread praise from readers and critics alike. more

“ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.”

Men World Soul Use Poor Gold Murder Sells Flesh Graves Thee Poison Farewell Thyself Compounds Juliet Romeo And Juliet Play

Book:The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family

Source: The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family

“I'm not scared, if that's what you're wondering. The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light shooting away, arcing up and up and up, and if singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing... The rest you have to find out for yourself.”

Ifs Moments Feelings Light Would Be Sound Wonder Laughing Singing Scared Shooting Warmth Lifting

Author:Lauren Oliver

“"Kent?" I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. "Yeah?" "Promise you'll stay here with me?" I say. "I promise," he whispers.”

Seems Voice Brain Forever Promise Mouths Yeah Fog I Promise Kent

Author:Lauren Oliver

“I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.”

World War Dark Hunger Tales War Of The Worlds Fairy Fairy Tale Second World War Dark Days Blitz Blackouts

Author:A. S. Byatt

“Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.”

Shows Deformity

Book:The Tragedy of King Lear