You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany

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.

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

One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.

An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.

It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.

There were stars. They burned my eyes.