How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere?

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.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen!

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

A word only writes its night and rides its dream.

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

People don't realize that there's no label and everything is self-financed and we make do and do our own thing. I was just happy to do my first video, I thought it was a fun experience.

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.