For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.

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.

A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe, " Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.

When you develop yourself, you grow humanity.

The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

As long as I feel like I can win majors and contend, I'll continue to play.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are.

You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.

Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.