“You can't eat books, sweetheart.”

“You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.”

“I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.”

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”

“If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.”

“A statue of the book thief stood in the courtyard... it's very rare, don't you think, for a statue to appear before it's subject has become famous?”

“Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.”