I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when...

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing ‘Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals’ t-shirts: Doesn’t it depend on what my goals are?

The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,” and the Colonel whispered, “I’m so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,” and I said, “No. Not past tense.” She wasn’t even a person anymore, just...

Cover me!’ Augustus said as he jumped out from behind the wall and raced toward the school. Isaac fumbled for his controller and thenstarted firing while the bullets rained down on Augustus, who was shot...

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he...

…the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much – Lindsey to Colin, ch.14

Perhaps okay will be our always.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friends nose.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

sametimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

The longer I do my job … the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone...

I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house...

…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like...

Because you may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps. That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

Me olvidarán, pero pero las historias persistirán. Y por eso todos importamos quizá menos que muchos, pero siempre más que nadie

The pleasure isn’t in doing the thing; the pleasure is in planning it.

Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.

This is your war now.’ I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?’Some war,’ he said dismissively. ‘What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer?...

I have a date,’ he explained. ‘This is an emergency.’ He paused to catch his breath. ‘Do you know’ – breath – ‘how to iron?’ I walked over to the pink shirt. It was wrinkled...

He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading...

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 fox hat?” I asked.”Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache...

Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

Internet friends,” because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure...

Some tourist think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a ciry of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Because memories fall apart, too. And then you’re left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning she haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks...

You can’t know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy.

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn’t see it again, and it occured to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is...

Where is my chance to be somebody’s Peter Van Houten?’ He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. ‘I hate myself I hate myself...

I walked to his bedside table next. Infinite Mayhem. the ninth sequel to The Prince of Dawn, lay atop the table next to his reading lamp, the corner of page 138 turned down. He’d never...

My dad finished chewing something and then put his fork down and looked at me. ‘The longer I do my job,’ he said. ‘the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard...

I’ve never known before what it feels like to want someone – not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe...

Don’t make stuff because you want to make money — it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous — because you will never feel famous enough....

Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

I know it’s impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you’re older, you start to see them–the bad kids and the good kids and all kids–as people. They’re just people, who...

So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don’t even know how ugly and pretty get decided – maybe...

She wasn’t a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally – I mean, you don’t want your cancer surgeon to walk into the examination room and be like, “Guy walks into a bar. Bartender says,...

Sería un honor tener el corazón roto por ti, Hazel Grace.