"It kills me sometimes, how people die."
"'Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing."
I have never read a book that has made me cry as much as this book made me cry. It was heartbreaking. Liesel is a young girl who loses her brother, and then is given up to a foster home. Thankfully she bonds with her foster father, from then on known as Papa. And this story is about her survival through World War II. She is a german girl, and her foster parents are hiding a jewish man named Max in their basement. It is an amazing story. Oh, and did I mention, Leisel steals books? And the narrator is Death? It's a different twist on things, but it is amazing.
The end is heart shattering though. Her town gets bombed, and she loses basically everyone she loves. Rudy, who is her best friend, and has been bugging her for a kiss since she met him, dies. He dies just after she begins to realize that she loves him and that she finally does want to kiss him. He was begging for a kiss throughout the book, and he never got one, until he was dead. It was probably one of the saddest things. And when her Papa dies, it's even worse. She was the person she loved most in the world. All of her books are ruined, the ones she stole, and the ones people made for her. I was bawling. It was an amazing book, and I would reccomend it to anyone.
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