Well, I’m a fair kisser.

It’s hard to believe in coincidence, but it’s even harder to believe in anything else.

She laughed. ”You seem pretty normal.””You’ve never seen Ben snort Sprite up his nose and then spit it out of his mouth,” I said.”I look like a demented carbonated fountain,” he deadpanned.

We left. We did not say: Don’t drive, You’re drunk. We did not say: We aren’t letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you....

what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in...

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?

I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that...

She loved mysteries so much, that she became one.

I want more numbers that I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our...

For the first time in a long time, I drive with no music. I’m not happy-not happy about Jane and Mr. Randall Water Polo Doucheface IV, not happy about Tiny abandoning me without so much...

I just want to stay away from people and read books.

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.

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.

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.

As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

Hazel, you deserve a life.

I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died....