Now that that is out of the way and I'm not crying anymore.

Beautiful book. Lovely book. Everyone read The Book Thief, please. It deserves every tear every reader sheds for it. I've only ever had one favorite author, and that's been Holly Black, and now I have two--welcome Markus Zusak oh god their names rhyme.

( i'm still going to quote this book, until i've wrung out every beautiful word from it's pages )

All my life,
I've been scared

of men standing over me.

I suppose my first standover
was my father

but he vanished before I could remember him.For some reason, when I was a boy, I liked to fight. A lot of the time I lost. Another boy, sometimes with blood falling from his nose, would be standing over me ( Read more... )