I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own 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.

She felt wild and unruly, determined and free.

For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.

Hope is the flower of the soul. Let it bloom with action and persistence.

I wrestle with my mind, but seldom win.

they comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love is differentwith each the absence of love is the same

Here is a toast that I want to give To a fellow I'll never know To the fellow who's going to take my place When it's time for me to go.

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

I have three children to take care; I have a wife. My job is to take care of them, and I can say it's a pretty cool job to have.