Book Thief Death Quotes

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The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is told through the perspective of Death, a person who is, in his own words, “haunted by humans” because Death has experienced the good and the bad of humans, and is constantly reminded of the human race's potential to do both great and terrible things. Death sees everyone and everything while collecting their souls after they die, he says: “I’m always finding humans at their best and their worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.” In the quote, Death is talking about how he sees everything about the human race, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Death wonders how the best and the worst can be the same thing. This proves that Death is reminded of the human race’s