The Book Thief

"I wanted to tell the book thief that as she was going to suffer, at least she should suffer for something worthwhile."

"Even death has a heart."

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

"I am haunted by humans."

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

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

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

"In her final moment, she was not afraid."

"To steal books was to steal a future."

"Death was patient, but humanity was not."

"The smell of books became her only religion."

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

"Death had never been so busy."

"Words had power—real power."

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

"I am haunted by humans."

"Words are life."

"I wanted to tell the book thief many things."

"The old man was a crazy soul."

"The last time I saw her was truly the last time."

"I am illiterate in the languages of solitude."

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

"The last word she would read would be his name."

"And so they read on, into the night, into safety."

"She would remember the exact taste of the words on her tongue."

"The world was a book written in blood."

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

"The basement became her palace of books."

"In her hand was the cure to her loneliness."

"They all looked at the words on the page and saw different things."