Rajeev

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and 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 and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The exaltation of understanding; then understanding's bottomless regret.”
― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union