Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.

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.

Honesty is the only trick to not trick anyone.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.

I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

Fear is something that really causes the people not to ascend within the spiritual and physical realm. Once you have Jah as a shield and a guide, you got to arm yourself and nothing can you any harm.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?