Quotes From The Devil You Know

Rudy Steiner was one of the most memorable characters in The Book Thief. Rudy not only showed extreme care for Liesel, but his unique personality and desires made him stand out above the other characters. He is described at the beginning of the book as a ten-year old with “bony legs, sharp teeth, gangly blue eyes, and hair the color of lemons” (Zusak 48). Physically, Rudy is the ideal image of a stereotypical Nazi, but mentally, he is the complete opposite. The Steiner family always struggled to put food on the table for all six kids, leaving Rudy with a grumbling stomach and very little meat on his body. Part of the appeal of Rudy Steiner was that in spite of an empty stomach and a Nazi party, nothing could not slow him down.

I've watched you day after day and I've held my tongue. But not any longer! Not after this! Now i want him to go! I want him to get out of here.

Nothing I did worked. His skin, so close, so warm against my own, did it distract me? Was that it? I had done my best to free myself from the darkness he had encompassed around me, but my efforts did next to nothing in getting him away. He evaded it all. I was floundering amidst my own failure, but he was still there, still overshadowing me.

I waited till the bus left then hurryed to Jack’s side. When I got there the green grass was no longer green but stained red. I stood by him for a moment then pulled out my phone and called an ambulance to come get Jack. When they arrived I realized that I wasn’t ready to let him go just yet but I didn’t have a choice any more.

The building was empty when suddenly I my leg was grabbed , I reacted fast and pulled out my trench knife and jerked my leg away from the grasp of the hand, but I looked down at the now wet street only to see one of the men who I shot but apparently never ended, he crawled  to me gasping for air as his throat filled with the  blood from the wound in his neck, I looked into his eyes that filed with  blood and at that moment the soldier said “ Please….p p p please  help me…..(cough,cough)  I…..I have a wife and daughter.” I faced  a decision at that time,  the monster who  am or  the monster that they say I am. I grasped the man in between my arms and brought him closer to my body, I whispered a prayer that my mother taught me when i was a child,”Father..forgive those who have forsaken me and forgive those who have forsaken you.” The soldier's tears of blood ran down  my uniform, as I pierced his heart with my blade. I lay him down on the path and as he drew his last breath, he thanked me.  The shed door creaked slowly as i peered into the warm and sheltered air that was hiding from the storm. The General stood there in his dark grey coat, covered in badges and symbols, a beacon of authority to all the soldiers under his influence. I tried to silence

“Oh glory, my friend is dead.” I felt my lip quivering. Silence overcome us and I said again, “I don’t want to live.”

“It’s what I want. “You’re not leaving me here alone, “I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out. “Listen, “he says pulling me to my feet.

“You were human then. You’re human now. And yeah, it sucks, but there will never be nothing because there will always be this, all of these moments, you and everything and nothing else.” He was close enough that she could feel his breath on her forehead. “Please. I’ll always follow you. For all the crazy moments behind, and for all the crazy moments to come. Don’t throw that away.” The world was

Slowly, I awoke to see looming trees all around me, bending over me, watching. Listening. They heard the screams, they heard my screams, I was still screaming. I clamped a trembling hand down over my mouth to only realize it was closed, my lips rolled in. And then thick as velvet. The blood pooled.

As he closed his eyes, inhaling one last time, I repeated the only words that would form on my trembling lips: I promise. My father let out his final breath and passed away, leaving behind a monster for me to destroy, but also a peaceful smile, reassuring his faith in me and my ability to succeed in my fight against the opium

What have we done? As the moonlight glimmered down on us, shimmering across our bleeding wounds, we began to realize what we just did. The smoky haze began to clear up and revealed a gigantic chunk taken out of the oak tree. This was supposed to be a fun little fountain of flames, but the outcome was nothing close to a playful pyrotechnics. We’re confused and scared, what should we do? We have to get out of here. Fleeing the scene, thorns from the jagged bushes began to pierce my legs like tiny bayonets with every step. Because of how stunned we are, we don’t even realize what pain we’re putting ourselves through. Not being able to hear anything at all and barely being able to see. Thinking to myself never

In Delirium by Lauren Oliver, love is a disease. As I read it, I was almost instantly taken into the story. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book and I’ve felt like I was actually there in the story, witnessing it firsthand. I love this book because it teaches that you can’t dwell in the past and that love is misunderstood in the book and in life.

Hours went by, and everything was going excellent until we went to hang my last stand, when the uttermost dreaded

Even now, I sometimes think he won, though, because he sleeps peacefully at night, while I wake up trembling with swollen eyes. But then I stop, absorb everything around me, and look at the world in another perspective. I look in the mirror now and see a different person, a woman who has survived the unimaginable.

Each day it seems America slips further away from the true meaning of individual liberty. I’m sure you have been raised to think that you grew up in the land of the free, but I question what the true definition of freedom is. Now don’t get me wrong, I agree that other countries may not have as much freedom as we do in America but that’s not my argument. The problem is that “The land of the free” isn’t so free anymore. It seems we go against the constitution more often every year. The drug war is a great example of us loosening our grips on the constitution because of the precise fact that it takes away individual liberty. Using drugs is most certainly not anything I would advise, but if it was my choice to make for you then you wouldn’t truly