The Book Thief Survivor's Guilt Quotes

#1. When top-level chess players look at a board, they see words, not letters. Instead of seeing twenty-five pieces, they may see just five or six groups of pieces. That's why it's easy for them to remember where all the pieces are.

Geoff Colvin

#2. I've found that when you can quickly knock out debt you get motivated because you see progress. Then you attack the other debt so fast that even if it's at a higher interest rate, you don't end up paying much more because you've gotten rid of it.

Michelle Singletary

#3. You have to predict and examine and understand every argument the other side is going to throw at you. It's not about being the one who's right. It's about showing them why they're wrong.

Cherrie Lynn

#4. I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

Geddy Lee

#5. She understood in life that a person was only allowed one trip down to hell.

Ann Patchett

#6. The prize is in the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it [my work]
those are the real things, the honors are unreal to me.

Richard Feynman

#7. Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth ...

Natalie Goldberg

#8. When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.

David Jeremiah

#9. She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.

Ruth Rendell

#10. I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.

Sandra Dee

#11. It is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it ... for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office.

Aristotle.

#12. He loved her enough to know she was better off without him

Cassandra Clare

#13. After several minutes, Ed said, his voice raspy and spent, "You okay, Laur?"
Laurie, his bones melted, his muscles slack, his heart pounding like a happy caged beast against the wall of his chest, his backside throbbing and still half-full of Ed, let out his breath. With great effort, he nodded.

Heidi Cullinan