Two most important passages

There were so many good passages in this book and it was hard to pick the most important ones so I choose the two that stood out to me and that i've bookmarked. The first passage that I choose was "Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love vision and freed them from their fear (350)." 

This passage is critical and really shows deaths character. You would expect that something that is portrayed as dark would be amused by the tragedies going on. Death is remorseful and compassionate to those that are dying and those that have lost their lives. He's listened to their last words and to their every noise because he cares about them and feels terrible for taking these people who's lives have been robbed. This line shows how haunted and sad death is by the events going on and in his last note as the narrator he says "I am haunted by humans (550)." Throughout the book, death doesn't understand how humans could be so evil and good. He's seen all of the bad things people have done to others and all of the good things people have done. Most of the time, he's seen how much evil humans are capable of. Humans are so cruel and even death who is suppose to be the greatest evil and that people are suppose to be afraid of is afraid of humans. 

The next passage that I choose is "I wanted to tell tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimated and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I every simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant (550)." 

This passage is very important because death is talking about how he wanted to tell Liesel about all the good and evil that was going but she was already aware of it and was at the center of everything going on even at a young age. Death is immortal and has seen countless number of people throughout his life. Death spends the entire novel trying to figure out the the evil and good that human beings are capable of. He sees humanity as complex and having all these layers. This is the last line of the book and it really made me reflect on the book as a whole. A lot of us fear death but for death in this book to be haunted by humans was just so powerful. This line really shows a summary of how all of the things that death has experienced has made him feel.