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“I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” – Liesel Meminger
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“Often I wished the last page of my final book had never been turned.” – Death
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“The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.” – Liesel Meminger
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“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?” – Death
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“The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words.” – Max Vandenburg
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“If your eyes could speak, what would they say?” – Liesel Meminger
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“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race – that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.” – Death
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“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
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“You save yourself or you remain unsaved.” – Liesel Meminger
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“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 right time.” – Death
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“I think it’s the same with books. What you take from them, what you leave in them. It’s different for everyone.” – Hans Hubermann MUMMY DADDY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY QUOTES
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“I am haunted by humans.” – Death
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“The only truth that lies in our hearts is the one we’ve changed ourselves.” – Max Vandenburg
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“The book thief had struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.” – Death
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“When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.” – Death
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“The consequence of every single action lies not in its intention, but in its implementation.” – Liesel Meminger
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“Sometimes I imagined how everything would look from above, if you turned the universe inside out and took a look: inside the planes, inside the people, the cities, the stars. And none of it would make sense.” – Death
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“You can steal a book, but you can never steal its interpretation.” – Max Vandenburg
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“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this.” – Liesel Meminger
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“In a world full of chaos, death and suffering, it was books that kept me sane.” – Liesel Meminger