"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

"He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.

She was the book thief without the words.

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"It’s a small story really, about, among other things:

* A girl
* Some words
* An accordionist
* Some fanatical Germans
* A Jewish fist fighter
* And quite a lot of thievery"
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career."
— Markus Zusak

"So much good, so much evil. Just add water."
— Markus Zusak

"It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

""'Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?"

At first, Liesel could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.

Years ago, when they'd raced on a muddy field, Rudy was a hastily assembled set of bones, with a jagged, rocky smile. In the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears. He was a triple Hitler Youth athletics champion. He was her best friend. And he was a month from his death.

"Of course I told him about you," Liesel said."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.

***TWO QUESTIONS***
Would the gates shut behind her?
Or would they have the goodwill to let her back out?

As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things.
Stealth. Nerve. Speed.
More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement.
Luck.

Actually.
Forget the ten minutes.
The gates open now."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in my cab. It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again"
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

"Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished, just to stay near it. (The Book Thief) "
— Markus Zusak

"I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am glad I was there. (The Book Thief)"
— Markus Zusak

"If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel so much love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread out on top of it."
— Markus Zusak

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

"The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you’ll go."
— Dr. Suess

"Dont cry because its over smile because it happened"
— dr. suess

""A persons a perso no matter how small"
-Horton
Horton Hears A who

"
— Dr.Suess

"They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! "
— Dr. Seuss

"I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights."
— Dr. Suess

"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."
— Dr. Suess

" Don't Cry Because It's Over....Smile Because It Happened.--Dr.Suess"
— Dr.Suess

"YOu know your in love when you cant fall asleep because reality is finally better then your dreams!"
— dr. suess

""NEVER FORGET TO SMILE EVEN THOUGH YOU FEEL LIKE CRYING"."
— REBECCA FLORES

""Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
"
— dr. suess

""Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.""
— Dr.Suess

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. "
— John Wayne

"Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid."
— John Wayne

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
— John Wayne

"Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much."
— John Wayne

"We're burnin daylight"
— John Wayne

"Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind."
— John Wayne

"Sometimes bad people are good at fooling you."
— Gibbs from NCIS

"Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!"
— Ben Mikaelson

"As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)

"When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness."
— Tecumseh

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian."
— Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

"Call Me Ishmael"
— Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

"A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that."
— Herman Melville (Moby-Dick: or, The Whale)

"It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him."
— Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family."
— Stephen King (The Green Mile)

"Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation."
— Stephen King (The Green Mile)

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."
— Stephen King (The Green Mile)

"Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire."
— Stephen King (The Green Mile)

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)