Death

"I have seen so much."

"The girl had fire in her chest."

"She was marked by her losses."

"The accordion man played their lives."

"Even death can be a friend."

"She learned to live in the margins."

"The last word was always goodbye."

"I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."

"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."

"I am haunted by humans."

"The truth was that Liesel, like herself, was not a girl of words. They had discovered that together over the last few weeks."

"I wanted to tell her to be careful, but it was far too late for that."

"She was small, with a sharp nose and suffering eyes."

"The book thief stole books. Not really, not yet anyway."

"I could introduce myself properly now. This is the book thief. This is the one who stole my heart."

"The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst."

"Some people refute small things."

"Rosa did something quite dangerous. She let me in."

"She was on her way to save a man, and she did."

"I am death. And I make no apologies for my work."

"The human heart. A surprisingly resistant thing."

"I have stolen a lot of things in my lifetime, but I could not steal time."

"I didn't kill you. I turned you into a promise."

"To steal a book is to love the story."

"She did not speak. The words were not there."

"The only thing I could do was acknowledge the ones I loved, the ones I wanted to save."

"A soft voice from the other side of the wall."

"She read with her eyes and her heart."

"I longed for death, but this girl, this girl loved life."

"Even death has favorites."