The Book Thief

''All my life, I've been scared of men standing over me.''

[sunlitday]

this isn’t Taylor swift related or anything but tell me ARE THEY CUTE OR WHAT

[shanandwords]

Christmas + The Book Thief

As requested by thebooker

[novelreveries-deactivated201909]

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”  ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

[saukerling]

he was her best friend

[thaliasgraphics]

infinite list of otps » Rudy&Leisel (The Book Thief)

He stood waist deep in the water for a few moments longer before climbing out and handing her the book. His pants clung to him, and he did not stop walking. In truth, I think he was afraid. Rudy Steiner was scared of the book thief’s kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.

[acceptthetightrope]

Second Christmas Eve movie.

[shivermepickles]

"It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement."

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

[lolaandthebooksnextdoor-deactiv]

My boyfriend got me this lovely edition of The Book Thief for christmas. I totally love the way it looks! I gave him my edition of insurgent because he loves divergent and he wanted it. I was a bit late with buying presents so I gave him my own.

[nicethingsinuglyhandwriting]

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness // Markus Zusak.

[aubergine-dreaming]

A few words, so many feels

[astrobunnny]

The Book Thief [2013] | via Tumblr en We Heart It.

[ladyvhatesyou]

❤

[davidstirlings]

get to know me: favorite books turned into movies → the book thief [1/10]

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn’t already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever 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.”

[fruiteaqueen]

Death wondering about human nature and its ambivalence

 - voiced by Roger Allam

[inky-harvest-moon]

This book is absolutely awesome, with its extraordinary narrator and beautiful characters and feelings and style! I’d like to have more free time to finish it in just one “reading-session”.

[millionen]

** A SMALL WAR STORY ** His legs were blown off at the shins and he died with his brother watching in a cold, stench-filled hospital. The Russian, the bullets, the German. As I made my way through the fallen souls, one of the men was saying, ‘My stomach is itchy.’ He said it many times over. Despite his shock, he crawled up ahead, to a dark, disfigured figure who sat streaming on the ground. When the soldier with the wounded stomach arrived, he could see that it was Robert Holtzapfel. His hands were caked in blood and he was heaping snow onto the area just above his shins, where his legs had been chopped off by the last explosion. There were hot hands and a red scream. Steam rose from the ground. The sight and smell of rotting snow. ‘It’s me,’ the soldier said to him. ‘It’s Pieter.’ He dragged himself a few centimeters closer. ‘Pieter?’ Robert asked, a vanishing voice. He must have felt me nearby. A second time. ‘Pieter?’ For some reason, dying men always ask questions they know the answer to. Perhaps it’s so they can die being right.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

[davidstirlings]

“I am haunted by humans.”

"It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on…”

“Even death has a heart.”