Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

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

Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?

I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.