Everything’s uglier up close.

I reread An Imperial Affliction until Mom woke up and rolled over toward me around six. She nuzzled her head against my shoulder, which felt uncomfortable and vaguely Augustinian.

Y ahora la vida se ha convertido en el futuro. Vives cada instante de tu vida por el futuro… Vas a la escuela para poder ir a la universidad, y así podrás encontrar un buen...

I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

Here’s the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most,...

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about...

I’m a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think…

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or...

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Nicely phrased.

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.

We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think we are invincible because we are.

i’d been in the dark so long I was still craving it.

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner

She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.

—,Por eso lees Celebrity Living?Lindsey asintió.—Sí, exacto. En alemán hay una palabra para eso. La tengo en la punta de…—Schadenfreude —dijo Collin.«Encontrar placer en la desgracia ajena».

I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game...

Whenever I’m asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing,...

And we’ll call you…hmmm. Pudge.””Huh?””Pudge,” the Colonel said. “Because you’re skinny. It’s called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let’s go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.

Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..

Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher’s last words were “Now comes the mystery.” The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, “I’ve had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do...

There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone’s face is in close proximity to your penis.This was not one of those times.

Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that...

War didn’t scare me. I just didn’t want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that–I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never...

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside...

The marks we leave are too often scars.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.

I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed...

Sometimes I dream that I’m writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.

…it argues that true love will triumph in the end (which may or may not be true) but if it’s a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have!

You don’t get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds,” I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and...

All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of “learned helplessness” without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy...

I am in love with you, and I am not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window...

All salvation is temporary,” Augustus shot back. “I bought them a minute. Maybe that’s the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one’s gonna buy them...

After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out – but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.” Chip/Colonel

Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time

…iubirea mea, nu-ți pot spune c t de recunoscătoare sunt pentru mica noastră infinitate. N-aș schimba-o pentru nimic în lume. Tu mi-ai oferit o veșnicie în interiorul zilelor numărate și pentru asta îți sunt recunoscătoare.

I had not cried for Margo until then, but now finally I did, pounding against the ground and shouting because there was no on to hear: I missed her I missed her I missed her...

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

it’s not my fault my parents own the world’s largest collection of black santas

Honestly, I don’t even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that I’m asexual or something – I just find Romance Drama unbearable.

More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someonewho might have loved you back but can’t due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back...

I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or...

I’ll fight it. I’ll fight it for you. Don’t you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I’m okay. I’ll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace…