She couldn't tell exactly where the words came from. What mattered was that they reached her. They arrived and kneeled next to her bed.

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.

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

When God gives you some opportunities, it is almost like a process that you do not even realize what is recurring at the moment.

I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

God did not put you on this earth simplest to be any person's mom.

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.