Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.

“He lay with yellow hair and closed eyes, and the book thief ran toward him and …”

“Yes, I know it.In the darkness of my dark beating heart,I know. He'd have loved…”

“The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed…”

“I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little h…”