The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.

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.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Love came, it saw, and it conquered me.

Silence gives you freedom to talk with yourself fearlessly

If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.

Only ignorance makes people put up with defeat.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

The greatest encouragement is conveyed in prayer.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.