I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death

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.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognise the One behind the many.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

The most important thing you will ever give your children is a little of your time.