"I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty&brutality. But what could i tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I'm constantly overestimating & underestimating the human race - that rarely do i ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly & so glorious, and it's words & stories so damning & brilliant."

>>> Markus Zusak.

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