Quotes from book

The Book Thief

“Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.”

“Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.”

“As always, one of her books was next to her.”

“When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)”

“Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?”

“Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.”

“The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.”

“They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.”

“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 the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.
As you may expect, someone has died.”

“Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.”

“Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.”

“They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.”

“THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.”

“You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies.
I've seen millions of them.
I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember”

“I am haunted by humans.”

“The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.”

“She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.”

“The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.”

“If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.”