Quotes from book

The Book Thief

“I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”

“No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.”

“Yes, I know it.
In the darkness of my dark beating heart,
I know. He'd have loved it alright.
You see?
Even Death Has A Heart.”

“She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.”

“Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)”

“There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.”

“An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.”

“He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.”