His eyes were cold and brown - like coffee stains.

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.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I have mostly been eating chicken wings. I only stick to things I can spell.

I can be mean. Not dirty. But very mean.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

So it was a whole experience revolving around "The Evolution of Dance," but wasn't just a company that put an ad on the video.

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.