Literature Quotes

"These are not words. These are not supposed to be words."

"The Republic of Gilead, I said to myself. Gileadean. It has a literary sound to it. Almost biblical."

"Words had power over her actions."

"She had written their story wrong."

"She could not write her way out of this."

"Miss Watson would read to me, and me about David and Goliath."

"There ain't nothing more to write about"

"In the end, all she had was her own account of things."

"Melquiades had written everything with the clarity of nostalgia."

"The purpose of a character is not to be likable, but to be interesting"

"In the end, all stories are the same story told different ways"

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

"She was a girl who decided to steal books."

"She learned to love the power of words."

"The words were everywhere."

"The boy vomited a mouthful of words."

"She stole books. Today was the day."

"She was the book thief without the words."

"Words like weapons are both beautiful and terrible."

"The night came alive with stolen words."

"She learned the power of words to heal and to destroy."

"Her words were like water to a dying man."

"In that cellar, words became salvation."

"They were bound by words and ink."

"The girl who stole books would one day write them."

"The manuscript contained the entire history that had yet to be lived."

"The written word could perhaps accomplish what the spoken apology could not."

"She had learned that the writer's task was not to judge but to understand."

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

"The most powerful words are the ones we read in our heads."