"The Book Thief" Quotes

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality.

I am haunted by humans.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.

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

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

It kills me sometimes, how people die.

I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race – that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

When death captures me, the boy will be there. I will look him in the eye and I will not go softly.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate.