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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always l...
“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
“It's not because I want to make out with her."Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if h...
“Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said."'Lone...
“As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
“We were kissing.I thought: This is good.I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all.I thought: I am clearly...
“You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and y...
“So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost”
“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through ...
“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apa...
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shatter...
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how...
“What the hell is that?" I laughed."It's my fox hat.""Your fox hat?""Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.""Why are you wearing your ...
“When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a lit...
“I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t ...
“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for no...
“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make ...
“Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”
“She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.”
“Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. [But] Idopick you. ...
“There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity t...
“What the hell isinstant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an ...
“One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t b...
“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.”
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find ...
“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer...
“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”
“Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see...
“Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot b...
“Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this.""Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish.""God, you're the best," ...
“And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was bette...
“Sometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right,...
“I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author ...
“The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's act...
“I mean, we're ninjas.""Well maybeyou'rea ninja," I said"You're just a really loud, awkward ninja," Margo said, "but we ...
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picki...
“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
“Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m...
“I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for...
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be,...
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the t...
“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost...
“Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
“I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to ...
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.”
“Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Childre...
“Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts...
“You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!”
