They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

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.

Catch your dreams before they slip awayDying all the timeLose your dreamsAnd you will lose your mind

We shall not fail. The dream will be fulfilled.

I just wanna have fun and breathe, but I can’t do either one of them when I suffocate myself with depression.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

I think it's only failure if you put the word failure on it. I think it's part of the process of learning where you're going to go and what doesn't work.

Try saving when your salary is low. So after making more money, you will not be able to do this anywhere

If your team is going to win, you need to play better than the other quarterback.