I am totally in love with this book! I felt so satisfied reading it, the same feeling i felt when i finished reading Jodi's other books such as Lone Wolf and House Rules. Lone Wolf basically deals with the lives of wolfs, living in packs, the alpha, beta and such while House Rules deals with a child who has the Asperger syndrome. I love these kinds of books because they filled me with new knowledge outside the world of my own. For The Storyteller, it revolves around The Holocaust, the pain and sufferings that those Jews need to face during that time of war. Every bit of the story was so real, so touching and they moved me.
Do you forgive people who hurt you so bad in the past?
Some quotes:
1) Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other. (Smite = defeat/conquer)
2) Desperate people often do things that they normally would not do. If you went to the doctor and he said you had a terminal disease, you'd probably walk out of that office feeling
3) Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
4) “That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”
5) “I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.”
6) “If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”
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