Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.

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.

There are just some things that are outside of comprehension, even if we can quantify them. At some point, science becomes magic.

But most of all, I'll remember how she loved me. I turn away, knowing that I might never get to see Julie Murphy again. But I will know her for the rest of my life.

Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.

Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in.

you never forget your first fall.

Great brand, no resume - no problem. Great resume, no brand? Welcome to position #347 of the stack of five hundred equally great resumes

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.