I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate 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.

We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.

I'm just another player that comes in and comes out. Everybody's time is up at some point, I don't think that's my problem. I'm just going to keep on trying like I normally do.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.

TV and comics and movies are what you think about when you think about geek, but people can be a geek about anything.

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.