It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.

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.

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.

I think I'm a different kind of role model for young girls.

You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.