[from trailer]
Max Vandenburg: If your eyes could speak, what would they say?
[last lines]
Death: I have seen a great many things. I have attended all the world's worst disasters, and worked for the greatest of villains. And I've seen the greatest wonders. But it's still like I said it was: no one lives forever.
Death: When I finally came for Liesel, I took selfish pleasure in the knowledge that she had lived her ninety years
so wisely. By then her stories had touched many souls, some of whom I came to know in passing. Max, whose friendship lasted almost as long as Liesel. Almost. In her final thoughts, she saw the long list of lives that merged with hers. Her three children, her grandchildren, her husband. Among them, lit like lanterns, were Hans and Rosa, her brother, and the boy whose hair remained the color of
lemons forever.
Death: I wanted to tell the book thief she was one of the few souls that made me wonder what it was to live. But in the end there were no words. Only peace. The only truth I truly know is that I am haunted by humans.
Liesel Meminger: There once was a ghost of a boy who liked to live in the shadows, so he wouldn't frighten people. His job was to wait for his sister, who was still alive. She wasn't afraid of the dark, because she knew that's where her brother was. At night, when darkness came to her room, she would tell her brother about the day. She would remind him how the sun felt on his
skin, and what the air felt like to breathe, or how snow felt on his tongue. And that reminded her that she was still alive.
[from trailer]
Max Vandenburg: Words are life, Liesel. All those pages, they're for you to fill.
Liesel Meminger: Do you think my mother really loved me?
Max Vandenburg: Of course. Every mother loves her child. Even Hitler's.
Liesel Meminger: Do you think she writes to him?
Max Vandenburg: "Dear Führer, just wait until your father gets home! Love, Mama."
Liesel Meminger: "Dear
Führer, clean up your mess."
Max Vandenburg: "Dear Führer, who cut your hair?"
Liesel Meminger: "You're not going out in that, are you?"
Max Vandenburg: "What's that growing on your lip?"
Liesel Meminger: "Don't raise your voice at me!"
Max Vandenburg: "Stop spitting when you
yell."
[from trailer]
Liesel Meminger: I can't lose someone else!
Max Vandenburg: You've kept me alive, don't ever forget that.
Liesel Meminger: Did he take away your mother?
Max Vandenburg: Probably.
Liesel Meminger: Don't worry... I cried a lot when I first came too.
[pause]
Liesel Meminger: The soup is terrible, isn't it?
Max Vandenburg: You may find this hard to believe, but it's the best thing Ive
ever thrown up.
Max Vandenburg: Where's my weather report?
Max Vandenburg: [Liesel shows a snow ball] You're full of wonders.