BEST QUOTES FROM THE BOOK THIEF

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” – Death

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.” – Liesel Meminger

“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 even simply estimate it.” – Death

“She wasn’t reading. She was consuming souls.” – The narrator (Death)

“Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.” – Liesel Meminger

“The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.” – Death

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ” – The narrator (Death)

“My heart is so tired.” – Liesel Meminger

“In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer—proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.” – Death

“She said it out loud, the words rippling forth with a sense of victory and a hint of sarcasm. “That’s what she is,” she said. – Liesel Meminger

“But this is important. To protect others from the enormity of her death, lies were necessary.” – Death

“One small fact: You are going to die…does this worry you?” – Death

“I am haunted by humans.” – Death

“The words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.” – The narrator (Death)

“In the darkness, he could see traces of her like fireflies on a summer night.” – The narrator (Death) QUOTES ABOUT THE SINGLE LIFE

“I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race, that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.” – Death

“I have watched many humans die, over the years. But there was something unique in the way she did it.” – Death

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” – Death

“She was stealing books. And as she did so, she was changed.” – The narrator (Death)

“She placed the shell gently to her ear, where up to that moment the dirt had rested. ‘You know something?’ she told the darkness. ‘You’re the best friend I’ve ever had.’” – Liesel Meminger

“Sometimes I arrive too early. I rush, and I’m reminded that the whole business of dying is never anything less than hurried.” – Death

“You can kill anyone…but not their story.” – Liesel Meminger

“It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them…” – Death

“A small but noteworthy note. I’ve seen so many young men over the years who think they’re running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.” – Death

“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate.” – Death

“Closer, closer. They were so close. He could feel them both…” – The narrator (Death)

“Even death has a heart.” – The narrator (Death)

“For some reason, dying men always ask questions they know the answer to. Perhaps it’s so they can die being right.” – Death

“The words had been spoken, and now they would be written, tracing their way to Liesel’s heart.” – The narrator (Death)