If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

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.

Belief can convert the mundane into the miraculous.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.

Everything we run away from has power over us;everything we go through,we conquer.

I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.