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....

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 me and hear me, but only through the internet?...

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.

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn’t going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58)

He aqui un consejo: eres lindo cuando eres seguro de ti. Y menos cuando no eres.

As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you’re sixteen, and that’s having a kid who bites it from cancer.

Qualities of a Good Nurse: Go,” I said.”1. Doesn’t pun on your disability,” Isaac said.”2. Gets blood on the first try,” I said.”Seriously, that is huge. I mean is this my freaking arm or a...

Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.

We need never to be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don’t choose us, we choose them.

I’m in love with you,” he said quietly.”Augustus,” I said.”I am,” he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. “I’m in love with you, and I’m...

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles “Pudge

When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and...

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we’re disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math...

I was surprised. I’d always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn’t dumb.

So I came here looking for a Great Perharps

I thought: 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 his glasses and went to the glasses store...

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.

…stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

I know love is real because I feel it.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

She’s still taking on water.” A desert blessing, an ocean curse.What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know...

Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they’re true, because people are basically...

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

Augustus Waters was the Mayor of the Secret City of Cancervania, and he is not replaceable”, Isaac began.”Other people will be able to tell you funny stories about Gus, because he was a funny guy,...