You can't eat books, sweetheart.

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.

Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant.

Anything is possible.""You really believe that?""It's what the great love stories are about, right?Beating the odds.

Meaning 'by way of the anus'. 'Per Annum', with two n's, means 'yearly'. The correct answer to the question, 'What is the birthrate per anum?' is zero (one hopes).

I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.

As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. Thats why they go into acting!

I am all for contraception. And I am all for preventative measures that are legal and safe, and should be taken.

The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.