She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

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.

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?

Women think with their whole bodies

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.