Book Thief Quotes

“He must have longed for it so much. 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.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“She gathered the books like clouds and words poured down like rain.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“When life robs you, sometimes you have to rob it back.”
― Mark Zusak

“He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.
A mindful of thoughts.
Like a simple puzzle, he put them together.”
― Mark Zusak

“I am haunted by human”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
― Markus Zusak

“Standing above him at all moments of awakeness was the hand of time, and it didn't hesitate to wring him out. It smiled and squeezed and let him live. What great malice there could be in allowing something to live.”
― Mark Zusak

“People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.”
― Markus Zusak

“I tried not to sleep because I was afraid of who might be there when I woke up.”
― Markus Zusak

“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.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“You hide a Jew. You pay. Somehow or other, you must.”
― Mark Zusak

“It was a nice dream, and an impossible one.”
― Markus Zusak

“She was the book thief without words.
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 the rain.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“No doubt he thought: This woman owns thousands of books and yet she's unwilling to lend me even one. But I treasure this volume, and I doubt that he'd be able to appreciate a single word of it.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

“One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”
― Marcus Zusak