I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best...

But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take...

He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. “You’re so hot,” I said, my hand still on his leg. “I’m starting to think you have an amputee fetish,” he answered, still kissing me. I...

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

… that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done...

I’ve been looking for a way to tell my father that I actually sort of hate basketball, and I think we’ve found it.

…there are books…which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. – Hazel Grace Lancaster

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed OK at the time because we...

She loves mysteries so much, she became one.

And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

… I didn’t know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

I do my precalc homework, and then when I’m done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That’s the kind of weekend it is–the...

Didn’t feel too friendly,” Gus mumbled just loud enough for me to hear. When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.

It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.

Thank you for letting me hijack your wish’, I said.’Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa,” he said.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who...

I spy with my little eye a great story.

Pain demands to be felt.

As a reader, I don’t feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship – nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.

(I didn’t tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making...

Augustus,” I said. “Really. You don’t have to do this.””Sure I do,” he said. “I found my Wish.””God, you’re the best,” I told him.”I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your...

Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we...

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly...

Well,” Ben went on,”someone should just tell her to come on home, because she can find the world’s largest balls right here in Orlando, Florida. They’re located in a special display case known as ‘my...

Because you’re my friend, wingnut.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

People are supposed to care. It’s good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they’re gone.

Without pain, how could we know joy?’ This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to...

Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution.

At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my hands balled into tight fists around his shoulders, and he...

Hey, it’s Col. I’m standing in a soybean field outside of Gutshot, Tennessee, which is a long story, and it’s hot. K. I’m standing here sweating like I had hyperhidrosis, that disease where you sweat...

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

Always’ was a promise! How can you just break the promise?” “Sometimes people don’t always understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course. But you...

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner...

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really...

I don’t believe in prom,’ I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I’d done this before.

Cual es el placer?-La planificacion, supongo. No lo se. Hacer cosas nunca se siente tan bien como esperas que se sentira.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

… Their sneak-out was over. But by then it was too late. In his mind, Katherine I was already becoming Katherine XIX. She would soon retake the throne that, all along, had rightfully been hers.

These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I’m going to use the name of a famous American poet:’You Walt Whitman-ing, Edna St. Vincent Millay! Go Emily Dickinson your mom!”Thanks...

Sencillamente no puedes extender esas cosas para siempre.En algún momento, te quitas el curita y te duele,luego se te pasa y te sientes aliviado.