“...the journey continued like everything had happened.”

“In the written words of the book thief herself, the journey continued like everything had happened.”

“Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.”

“She thought about the last car ride she had taken. It had only been a few days ago but it felt like she had journeyed for a lifetime since. The universe worked in strange ways. What if everything that had ever happened to Tina had happened so that one day she could rescue Lockie? It seemed too cruel an idea but you never knew. Or maybe she was just in the right place at the right time. Shit just happened . .”

“The boy admonished himself for wanting everything to be a story. And now realized that some journeys were not stories. On some journeys, nothing really happened. You just kept taking steps.”

“She looked as though everything that she didn't like had happened to her.”