People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.

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.

He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers.

We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

You don't need to be a star to be a bright and shining one to that friend in need.

The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.

Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.

For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.

Wise man and river; they both create new paths!

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.