Death

"The written word could not be bombed away like buildings - it lived in memory forever."

"Guilt and love are sometimes impossible to separate."

"A stolen book changes the shape of your soul."

"Some people die with dignity, and that is the only victory they can claim."

"The accordion player could speak what words could not express."

"Injustice must be remembered, or it will be repeated."

"A person's greatest enemy is often themselves, not their circumstances."

"The girl who stole books also gave them away, and that was her true theft."

"In the end, words are all we have to resist tyranny."

"Death and I are old acquaintances in war, but the living are my mystery."

"She was proof that even in hell, humanity could persist."

"Memory is both a blessing and a curse, and I carry both."

"The safest place in the world can be a basement filled with books and love."

"Some friendships transcend difference and survive the impossible."

"A girl with a book is more dangerous to tyranny than any soldier."

"They lived in stolen time, but that made every moment sacred."

"The narrator and the girl were bound by story, by word, by the power of narrative itself."

"Survival is not always a victory - sometimes it is merely a curse of luck."

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

"The boy who blocks the street."

"I am haunted by humans."

"She was holding her breath."

"A small fact: You are going to die."

"I wanted to tell the book thief many things about beauty and ugliness."

"The words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel read them as though briefed in all things to come."

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

"Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes."

"You see, in all my years, all my endless mercenary existence, I have seen so much."

"The book thief had struck for the first time."

"I could introduce myself properly now. This is my name."