There’s no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET...

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank’s name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without...

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was – you know, the central figure in the drama...

JP shouted, “TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!””Um,” I said.”We kissed,” the Duke said.”That’s kinda gay,” Keun said.”I AM A GIRL.””Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin,” Keun said.

This is unbearable … God. These books she’ll never read. Her Life’s Library.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page,” Radar said. “For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don’t think it’s accurate to say, ‘Chuck Norris’s tears can...

What about the rest of your life?”She shrugged. “What about it?””Aren’t you worried about, like, forever?””Forever is composed of nows,” she says.

You can’t just make me different and then leave

This one’s for Alaska Young!

true friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

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

There is no try,” I said. “There is only do.

I figured something out,” he said aloud. “The future is unpredictable.”Hassan said, “Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

Tiny is saying, “If you can’t trust your gut then what can you trust?” And I say, “You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to...

…and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.

Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. The smell of almonds,...

I fell in love with you the same way you fall asleep. Slowly then all at once,

A sequel that will exist just for us

All writing is rewriting.

When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken....

I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it’s a little different. I don’t want to say it’s more miraculous,…It is though.

My heart is really pounding,” I said.”That’s how you know you’re having fun,” Margo said.

But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn’t really emotionally ready to write about at ten.”Fair enough,’ I say. ‘But in the revision, I...

Jesus, kid, you’re almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives.

Porque é o máximo ser uma ideia que agrada a todos. Mas eu nunca poderia ser aquela ideia para mim, não totalmente.

To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the...

Vosotros fumáis para disfrutar. Yo fumo para morir.

I’d had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to...

Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE23 and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have been Ovid if he had lived in America? No, he wouldn’t have been, because he...

Which got me to wondering whether it’s possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead.

I’m sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting....

Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen – these people leave us, or don’t love us,...

Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that...

But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I’ll have more time for reading when I’m old and boring.

It’s easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent...

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.

Grief does not change you. It reveals you.

To be fair, you still look pretty bad.

We don’t get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I...

I felt bashful, like I had when I’d first told him of An Imperial Affliction. “Um, okay. Okay. ‘Let us go, trough certain half-deserted streets,/ The muttering retreats/ Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels/...

Miedo de que no sea capaz de dar nada a cambio por mi vida. Si no vives una vida de servicio del bien mayor, tienes al menos que morir una muerta al servicio de un...

You deserve a life.

I know what happens a the end of falling-landing

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.