Best Book Thief Quotes

#1. The worst thief is a bad book

Ian Caldwell

#2. How many books had she touched?
How many had she felt?

Markus Zusak

#3. There were heavy beams - planks of sun - falling randomly, wonderfully, onto the road. Clouds arched their backs to lok behind as they started again to move on. 'It's such a beautiful day,' he said, and his voice was in many pieces. A great day to die. A great day to die, like this.

Markus Zusak

#4. Like most misery, it started out with apparent happiness. - The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

#5. I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.

Ben Schnetzer

#6. When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

Markus Zusak

#7. When I found it amongst the book thief's words, I realised that we passed each other once in a while during that period, though neither of us scheduled a meeting. Personally, I had a lot of work to do. As for Hans, I think he was doing his best to avoid me.

Markus Zusak

#8. Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this. Look at my bruises. Look at this graze. Do you see the graze inside me? Do you see it growing before your very eyes, eroding me? I don't want to hope for anything anymore.

Markus Zusak

#9. Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#10. Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.

Markus Zusak

#11. A NICE THOUGHT
One was a book thief.
The other stole the sky.

Markus Zusak

#12. There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snatches of laughter. They were only humans, playing in the snow, in a house

Markus Zusak

#13. The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is
like a yellow hole ...

Markus Zusak

#14. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds, beating like black hearts

Markus Zusak

#15. I am haunted by human

Markus Zusak

#16. I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

Malorie Blackman