Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced. - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

"If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter."

"Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?"

"Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day."

"for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right."

"A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)"