You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.

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.

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth, ’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…

Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.

stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.

Depression is not an absence of happiness, it’s a feeling that happiness may never return.

There was a bright flash of brilliant white light, like the midday summer sun reflecting off of a freshly cleaned mirror.And then it was gone.

He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them just the way he did.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.