Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Quotes

• “I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, dependin...”
• “They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like...”
• “How does it feel, anyway?"How does what feel?"When you take one of those books?"At that moment, she chose to keep still....”
• “His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you...”
• “A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTHI do not carry a sickle or scythe.I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold.And I don't have ...”
• “Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay"we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives ...”
• “I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simpl...”
• “He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust...”
• “It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to ...”
• “Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound...”
• “A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. Th...”
• “It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I needed a broom or a...”
• “A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the s...”
• “Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of dest...”
• “for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.”
• “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
• “A DEFINITION NOT FOUNDIN THE DICTIONARYNot leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children”
• “If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.”
• “The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.”
• “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
• “Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
• “The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.”
• “Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?”
• “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
• “I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
• “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
• “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
• “If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.”
• “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
• “Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
• “***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.”
• “As always, one of her books was next to her.”
• “So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”
• “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
• “***A KEY WORD*** Imagined”
• “I am haunted by humans.”
• “Even death has a heart.”