He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.

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.

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

God is seeking those who hear His call to a life of worship. Those who heed are those who will walk in His presence. They will know Him intimately as He will manifest Himself to them.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda.