Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.

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.

The holes in my boots and the holes in my jeans make me whole!

It bothers me when people have no problem paying for all they can eat but have problems investing in all they can be.

There are no monsters, Doctor, ' she spluttered.Yeah, There are, ' he said. 'Some of them are just better at hiding than others. And then there are the ones we wouldn't know if we saw them.

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.

Cycling is not rocket science.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath.

If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it.