I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. - Liesel Meminger

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.

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.