The Book Thief Death Quotes

Death

Quote 10

Beneath her shirt, a book was eating her up. (21.56)

Liesel's love for books is very apparent in this moment, after she's stolen the smoldering The Shoulder Shrug from the book burning. She'd rather let it burn her skin than abandon it.

Death

Quote 11

That such a room existed! (22.57).

This is Liesel's first glimpse of Ilsa Hermann's library. Maybe we take our libraries for granted these days. Though, still, doesn't the sight of a library fill you with a little of Liesel's wonder? No matter how common place the library may be?

Death

Quote 12

From a Himmel Street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes. (55.78)

This is Max, writing in his scrap book, expressing how it felt to see the stars for the first time since he's come to Himmel Street. In fact, he hasn't seen anything of the outside world. The passage is an intense expression of his confined state.