Quotes & Sayings About Characters In The Book Thief

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. — Anonymus Artist

The things they have done to us! The truths they have turned into lies! The ideals they have fouled and made vile. Take Jesus. He was one of us. He knew. When He said that it is harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God - He damn well meant just what He said. But look at what the church has done to Jesus in the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word he spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if He was living today. Jesus would be one who really knows. Me and Jesus would sit across the table and I would look at Him and He would look at me and we would both know that the other knew. Me and Jesus and Karl Marx could all sit at a table and - — Carson McCullers

The world would become better off
If people tried to become better.
And people would become better
If they stopped trying to become better off. — Peter Maurin

The one, who does not have the 'poison' of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (karmic). — Dada Bhagwan

Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as early in life as he ought to. If we were more careful not to teach our children to read in their childhood we should not be so anxious about the effects of pernicious literature upon their adolescent morals. — John Kendrick Bangs

I know Edmond Locard's Principle, the central theory of modern forensic crime-scene investigation: something is always left behind. — C.J. Box

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. — Barbara Walters

Isobel's head popped up. "What does 'sagacious' mean?"
"Sagacious," he said, writing, "adjective describing someone in possession of acute mental faculties. Also describing one who might, in a bookstore, think to get up and locate an actual dictionary instead of asking a billion questions. — Kelly Creagh