The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

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.

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Unconditional love and forgiveness are the sources of eternal happiness.

Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.

After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.

Many friends in generall, one in speciall.

People want to know that they're going to get tax relief and Donald Trump has promised that.

With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.

Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.