But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

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.

...speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words...

Meeting, for the first time in person, someone that you’ve ‘known’ for sometime online = Taking the relationship to the ‘previous’ level.

No greater place to be than in a leadership position to lead young minds to prosperity

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

I guess I've written enough songs now. I've been doing this for so many years, that it's kinda cool just to be able to pull something out of the bag.

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.