FAMOUS QUOTES FROM THE BOOK THIEF

“I have hated the 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

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.” – Death

“I am haunted by humans.” – Death

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

“I am haunted by humans.” – Death

“That’s the thing about humans, they don’t see us. They only see the suffering they cause.” – Death

“Even death has a heart.” – Max Vandenburg

“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there” – Death

“I’m not sure whether she left me or I her.” – Max Vandenburg

“You cannot bury me in snow. I am not dead.” – Max Vandenburg

“The only truth I truly know is that I am haunted by humans.” – Death

“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist’s suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers. Her hands were trembling, her lips were fleshy, and she leaned in once more, this time losing control and misjudging it. Their teeth collided on the demolitions of love, and in the kiss she felt something beside passion. She felt a connection with Rudy that was both far-reaching and solid. How strange, she thought, that her mouth was so wet with rain. – Liesel” – Death

“I have hated words a lot, but I was there at the shoulder of every soldier who put my letters, wisely or not, into soup. I saw what they did. And I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by illiteracy.” – Death

“A small fact: You are going to die.” – Death

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” – Liesel Meminger QUOTES ABOUT KINDNESS AND EMPATHY

“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. None of those things, however, came out of my mouth. All I was able to do was turn to Liesel Meminger and tell her the only truth I truly know. I said it to the book thief and I say it now to you. I am haunted by humans.” – Death

“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

“She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, 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.” – Death

“The only thing louder than Death, is Life.” – Death

“The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.” – Death

“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.” – Death

“When death captures me, death will feel sorry for being rude.” – Liesel Meminger

“A swollen face does not mean a broken spirit.” – Max Vandenburg

“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

“Like all humans, she must die.” – Death

“I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I’d throw them over my shoulder. It was only the children I carried in my arms.” – Death

“The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the wrong time. The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there when yesterday it was not.” – Death

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

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.” – Liesel Meminger