1. “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” ― The Book Thief
2. “You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.” ― The Book Thief
3. “Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen.” ― The Book Thief
4. “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” ― The Book Thief
5. “It’s a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.” ― The Book Thief
6. “One opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.” ― The Book Thief
7. “I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” ― The Book Thief
8. “Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.” ― The Book Thief
9. “Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.” ― The Book Thief
10. “For some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. Perhaps it’s so they can die being right.” ― The Book Thief
11. “Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.” ― The Book Thief
12. “I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.” ― The Book Thief
13. “You cannot be afraid. Read the book. Smile at it. It’s a great book—the greatest book you’ve ever read.” ― The Book Thief
14. “I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.” ― The Book Thief
15. “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.” ― The Book Thief
16. “Can a person steal happiness? Or is it just another internal, infernal human trick?” – The Book Thief
17. “The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.” ― The Book Thief
18. “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.” ― The Book Thief
19. “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.” ― The Book Thief
20. “It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.” ― The Book Thief
21. “Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.” ― The Book Thief
22. “The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this.” ― The Book Thief
23. “A human doesn’t have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time.” ― The Book Thief
24. “Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I’d throw them over my shoulder. It was only the children I carried in my arms.” ― The Book Thief
25. “Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.” ― The Book Thief
26. “Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.” ― The Book Thief
27. “The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.” ― The Book Thief
28. “The words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.” ― The Book Thief
29. “It’s hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.” ― The Book Thief
