Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

This is what makes us girls/ We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting.

I blend in the backgroud. when I arive for lunch my friends are surprised i'm not already there.