I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.

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.

In 5 minutes, 1 minute and many other phrases most of them are a lie..., but why do we say them?

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

It ain’t wilderness unless there’s a critter out there that can kill you and eat you.

Evidence of warming is not evidence that the cause is anthropogenic.

The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

I always try to look at conflicts from as many different angles as is humanly possible, and in a lot of ways there is no one answer.

I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.

You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.