Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.
Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!
I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.
I really like playing the bad guy. There are so many more objectives to play when you're mad or villainesque, or when there's some agenda that you have. That's drama, that's where the heart lives. I love playing the bad guy, but especially the bad guy who's still with the girl.
Everyone just needs to stop fighting and have a cookie.
When everyone has let you down. . . You still have ice cream.
When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.
Internet has contributed to certainly a new kind of communication among us - not all of it good; a lot of it, dangerous. When we talk about human community, we certainly now have a tool in our hands that enables us to reach out as we never have before. It broadens our sense certainly of what community is and even of our own place in it.
This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.