1) “I am haunted by humans,” and “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
2) “For me, the sky was a color of Jews.”
3) “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.”
- In the book Death is the narrator. The way Death is portrayed is that it is not evil at all. In fact us humans are what is really the evil one. It is actually disappointed at how people die. How often people kill each other. Especially during times like the Holocaust, where Death is busy picking up the mess other people are causing. Death is just there to take our souls after we die, it is not what kills us. Death just picks up the pieces of the mess humans make. Humans are what haunts Death, not the other way around. It is an awful thing.
2) “For me, the sky was a color of Jews.”
- Death talks about seeing colors and shapes more than actual figures. During the Holocaust, Death talks about how busy of a time it was, and the sky was literally a color of Jews, from all the deaths. Death explains the sky being a color of Jews from all the Jews murdered in the gas chambers and the smoke coming up and out of them filling the sky making it a “color of Jews”.
3) “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.”
- This quote is so ironic. It is about Liesel and her best friend Rudy, who was in love with her throughout the entire book. Every chance he had to be her “hero” he would. Then he would ask for a kiss in return. However, Liesel vowed never to kiss Rudy Steiner. This is until Rudy was fast asleep during the night of the fatal bombing and, like everyone else, unfortunately does not wake up. He literally went to the grave without a kiss from his beloved Liesel. Liesel finally kissed his ash covered lips when it was already too late to tell him how she really felt.