One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence.

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.

You are not your mind. You don’t have to believe the lies it tells you about yourself.

Owen remarked "The basis of science and art is magical - vice versa, magic is art and science. It goes both ways. There's not ever black and white...in magic or in anything to my way of thinking.

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.

It doesn't matter what your ideology is, people don't like to [be] lied to.

Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.

Social Security is a tax.