I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in 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.

The difference between "I wish", and "I will" is two letters, get up and make that change.

The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.

If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.

I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.

We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.

The vast sky is not hindered by the floating clouds.