She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.

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 want to start over?" he murmured against her ear. His hot breath sent shivers to her toes.

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

She leaned into him to soak up his warmth. "You are so hot," she said. "It's about time you noticed," he teased.

Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.

I think there's only one sensible place for a person to be at 5:30 in the morning. That's in bed. And what am I doing? I'm out running. And I completely hate this.

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love

Bliss begins with the breath. We breathe in, and accept all that is new. We breathe out, and release all that has passed.