Quotes & Sayings About Survival In The Book Thief

And when I found out they had, I came back. What do you think I was doing at the alliance?" "Having drinks, by the looks of it," he snarked, — Kim Harrison

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries. — Khaled Hosseini

The movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul. — Leon Battista Alberti

If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here. — John Goodman

Fear is the poison that erodes resolve. And fear is not without a killer of its own. Hope. — R.R. Virdi

Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From '34 to '35 to '36 to '37 to '38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn't say one word. And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, "I cannot believe you're not going to say one word." And she writes to Walter White, "I've asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will." But he doesn't. And these become very bitter disagreements. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

Start living by taking back the control of your life now! Create a life more in tune with your true desires. — Steven Redhead

I will die for you but i shall never, ever live for you. — Ayn Rand

One piece of information that made an impression on her was that individual Chinese lives mattered to the Westerners. — Jung Chang