***A Last note from your narrator*** I am haunted by humans.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences.

Ki is within us. There is Ki everywhere, either we know how to use it or we don't.

I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

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