“Since most of the action of the war actually happens off the page (offstage), I wanted to give the characters something they had to contend with on a daily basis, some sort of obstacle. Weather seemed to be the one great equalizer regardless of your station in life - when it snows, everyone is inconvenienced to a certain degree. Plus it's tactile, weather, it affects the skin.” GivingWarCharacterHappensActionWantedCertainDegreesPagesSkinsBasesObstaclesSnowWeatherStationsPlusEqualizerTactile Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.” ThreeLanguageCitiesFrontsPagesRussiaSnowBlankBulletsJanuaryFiringIcyBlank Pages Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition
“I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow.” LightReadingLinesPagesCirclesSnowTrailsCrumbsFresh Snow Book:The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems Source: The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems