She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.

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.

Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing.

When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.