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Toby’s athletic abilities mirror my own…
Do you ever look at your siblings and then at yourself in the mirror and think, “Wow, we have all grown up too fast. I remember when we were six and inventing imaginary worlds in our backyard or chasing the ice cream truck down the street, and now two of us are in college, one is a senior in high school, and the other three are slowly, but surely, climbing the ladder to adulthood. One day I will wake up in my own house, here in town or somewhere completely new, and not live with these people anymore. They will be off living their own lives, loving their own family, and creating their own memories.”
"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 glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant."