I absolutely love Zusak's use of color to evoke emotion and images. For example: "His eyes were the color of agony" (312); "even Papa's music was the color of darkness" (88); "iridescent fear" (169); "breakfast colored sun" (399); "her plump figure glowed with worry" (167)
#imagery
"The brute strength of the man's gentleness." (Zusak 33)
"Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness." (Zusak 74)
"...the scratchy feeling of sin" (Zusak 146)
#imagery
"A young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn." (Zusak 185)
"Even death has a heart." (Zusak 193)
#death
"The only thing truly visible was her voice." (Zusak 294)
"She hauled the words in and breathed them out." (Zusak 303)
#books
"Even the wrinkles around her eyes were joining hands." (Zusak 377)
#imagery
"Books and pages and a happy place." (Zusak 413)
#books
"Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me thnk that something good can come of any of htis. Look at my bruises. Look at this graze. Do you see the graze inside me? Do you see it growing before your very eyes, eroding me? I don't want to hope for anything anymore." (Zusak 416)
#despair
There would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. " (Zusak 417)
"He steps on my heart. He makes me cry" (Zusak 422)
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