“You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.”

Markus Zusak

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“What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me!But you're far from this. Your fingers turn the strangeness of these pages that somehow connect my life to yours. Your eyes are safe. The story is just another few hundred pages of your mind. For me, it's here. It's now. I have to go through with this, considering the cost at every turn. Nothing will be the same.”


“Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert Einstein for all I know, or some literary prizewinner, or maybe you're just middle of the road like me.”


“Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.”


“It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.”


“Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.”


“Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.”