148 quotes found
“the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers”
“It could be worse. I could be you.”
“They sat a few meters apart, speaking very rarely, and there was really only the noise of turning pages () Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel w...”
“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.”
“She kept watching the words. ”
“The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. ”
“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.”
“For a long time, she sat and saw.She had seen her brother die with one eye open, on still in a dream. She had said goodbye to her mother and imagined her lonely wait for a train back home to oblivi...”
“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what couldI tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestim...”
“I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. - Liesel Meminger”
“... none of them had it. They had no qualms about stealing, but they needed to be told. They liked to be told, and Viktor Chemmel liked to be the teller. It was a nice microcosm.”
“a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.”
“He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.”
“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ”
“Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone ...”
“Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)”
“DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children”
“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.”
“As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.”
“I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and a...”
