☆ The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

• ***A Definition not found in the dictionary*** NOT LEAVING: an act of trust and love often deciphered by children. ( pg. 37 )
• The only thing worse than a boy who hates you : A boy who loves you. ( pg. 52 )
• At the end of August and summer, they found one pfennig on the ground. Pure excitement. (...) Outside they unwrapped it and tried biting it in half, but the sugar was like glass. Far too tough, even for Rudy's animal-like choppers. Instead, they had to trade sucks on it until it was finished. Ten sucks for Rudy. Ten for Liesel. Back and forth. "This," Rudy announced at one point, with a candy-toothed grin, "is the good life," and Liesel didn't disagree. ( pg. 155 )
• "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." -Max Vandenburg ( pg. 313 )
• I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks. Even the clouds are trying to get away. ( pg. 350 )
• Rudy Steiner. Hair the color of lemons.

☆ Essays in Love (Alain de Botton)

• One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other - not with one person wanting a fling and the other real love. I think that's where all the agony comes from.. ( pg. 24 )
• Not to find the right words is paradoxically often the best proof that the right words are meant. (...) Real desire lacks articulacy. ( pg. 28 )
• I had counted more on loving than being loved. (...) it was perhaps because being loved is always the more complicated of the two emotions, Cupid's arrow (is) easier to send than receive. ( pg. 44 )
• Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. ( pg. 56 )
• Does beauty give birth to love or does love give birth to beauty? (...) Every one of our lovers offers different solutions to the problem of beauty, and yet succeeds in redefining our notions of attractiveness in a ways that is as original and as idiosyncratic as the landscape of their face. ( pg. 72 )
• It's not that I don't want you, it's that I'm afraid of wanting only you, of finding that there's nothing left of me. ( pg. 99 )
• Whatever the pleasures of discovering mutual loves, nothing compares with the intimacy of landing on mutual hates. (...) The finest proof of our loyalty towards one other was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.. ( pg. 102 )
• (...)in resolving our need to love, we do not always succeed in resolving our need to long. ( pg. 121 )
• At the end of a relationship, it is the one who is not love who makes the tender speeches. ( pg. 170 )

☆ Love in Lowercase (Francesc Miralles)

• Burning in water, drowning in flame. ( pg. 92 )
• Dogs have a master. Cats have servants. ( pg. 102 )
• "It's when some small act of kindness sets off a chain of events that comes around again in the form of multiplied love. Then even if you want to return to where you started, it's too late, because this love in lowercase has wiped away all traces of the path back to where you were before." ( pg. 161 )
• "Never reject your sensations and feelings. They're all you've got.". ( pg. 165 )
• When you fall in love, you're not really in love with the person but with life through that person. ( pg. 179 )