The Book Thief Quotes - Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.

Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

I did it on purpose.

Humans have a talent for escalation.-Death

Death about Heil Hitlering p. 117-118.You know, it actually makes me wonder if anyone ever lost an eye or injured a hand or wirst with all of that. You'd only need to be facing the wrong way at the wrong time, or stand marginally too close to another person. Perhaps people did get injured. Personally, I can only thell you that no-one died from it, or at least, not physically. There was, of course the matter of forty million people I picked up by the time the whole thing was finished, but that's getting all metaphoric.

Liesel was sure her mother carried the memory of him, slung over her shoulder. She dropped him. She saw his feet and legs and body slap the platform. How could that woman walk? How could she move? That's the sort of thing I'll never know, or comprehend-what humans are capable of."Death-

In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it, all right. You see? Even death has a heart.