Quotes from book

The Book Thief

“So many humans.
So many colors.”

“I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”

“I can promise you that the world is a factory.  The sun stirs it, the humans rule it.  And I remain.  I carry them away.- spoken by death”

“One wild card was yet to be played.”

“The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?”

“Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”

“Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.”

“Everything was good.
But it was awful, too.”

“Even death has a heart.”

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

“One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.”

“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.”

“… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger.
The sky was dripping.
Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.”

“How 'bout a kiss,?" -- Rudy Steiner”

“My heart is so tired”

“It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.”

“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.”

“Clearly, I see it.
I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there.
A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.”

“And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.”