More quotes by Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

"I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS."
"The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career."
"He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry."
"Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?"
"Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction."