Liesel Meminger

"Perhaps it is not too late to try to be better."

"I'm scared of the process and the product."

"Words are very valuable."

"I love the smell of book paper."

"Foster Father, I want to understand the meaning of such a thing."

"The words had a power and weight to them."

"Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the broken reflection in that other person's eye."

"The most powerful words are four words long: 'I want to know you.'"

"Even if I couldn't see the end, at least now I know the beginning."

"Sometimes I imagine how everything's changed, like there are two separate worlds now - before and after."

"I'm not a thief. I'm a borrower."

"Nothing's a lie if you believe it."

"I want to live a thousand years."

"The only way to truly know a person is to read their mind."

"Sometimes I think my papa is afraid of words too."

"The words were like a doorway."

"The night everything changed, she knew she would never forget it."

"In the darkness, she could still see the words on the page."

"The basement became her palace of books."

"She understood finally that words could destroy and create."

"I am illiterate in the languages of solitude."

"The old man was a crazy soul."

"Her brother was sleeping beside her, and her mother was smoking in the window."

"Words had power—real power."

"She walked to the Himmel Street bridge and remembered."

"The smell of books became her only religion."

"To steal books was to steal a future."

"Books were safer than people, but less lonely."

"It kills me sometimes, how people are so selfish and unkind all the time."

"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you is a boy who loves you."