A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)

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

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

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

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.

Better to get off the train at this station. Than to do it later, when it's too late. Remember Time doesn't wait!

Anytime fashion and music go hand-in-hand and it really is an organic fit, it's amazing.

Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

Would you let the aliens land, please? They might be here to pick me up.

One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.