There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

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.

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

And then I got what she was saying. In the paranormal world, everyone was your enemy.

The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.

You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying.

A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.