“I am stupid" Hans Hubermann told his foster daughter " And kind, which makes me the biggest idiot in the world.”

“I must seem like the biggest nagging idiot in the world!”

“And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.”

“Liesel and Papa made their way through the book, this man was traveling to Amsterdam on business and the snow was shivering outside. The girl loved that- the shivering snow. "That's exactly what it does when it comes down," she told Hans Hubermann.”

“I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid crap.”

“For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters. ”