...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

As far as this categorization of books, the way I see it is there are really a hundred-odd categories of books plus one, and on the top shelf at home, I've got the books I love, my favorite books, and that's the type of book that I want to write.

...they watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air.

She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened up and a series of wounds were rising to the surface of her skin. All from the words. From Liesel's words.

I just want to write someone’s favorite book

They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.