Tiffany mackel’s Reviews > The Book Thief > Status Update

Haha bawling my eyes out nbd

"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. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die."

"Silence was not quiet or calm, and it was not peace"

"No, they were not men and women; they were Jews." This is honestly, probably the most powerful lines in this book. It reminds everyone what life was like in nazi Germany. Imagine if everyone looked at you with disgust and didn't even consider you a proper person ?

"Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel. But then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands."

"People say war is deaths best friend but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible."

"What great malice there could be in allowing something to live." Oh man this book actually breaks my heart so bad

"His eyes did not do anything that shock normally describes. No snapping, no slapping, no jolt. Those things happen when you wake from a bad dream, not when you wake into one." Such is the life of a Jew in nazi Germany, and in other news zusak is incredibly good at describing things that average people don't experience

"I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is in their capacity to escalate."

"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy who loves you"