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• Not-leaving: An act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.
• Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
• 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 glor...