Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

But it doesn’t say that dude shall not fall in love with dude, because that’s just impossible, right? The gays are animals, answering their animal desires. It’s impossible for animals to fall in love. And...

In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it,...

Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy...

You die in the middle of your life.

I glanced again. He was still watching me.Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of...

Und so fielen wir ineinander wie das entzweite Haus, das allein nicht stehen konnte, glorreiche, verdammte Liebende, die wir waren.

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad’s study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to...

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

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there’s a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people...

I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue. “There will come a time,” I said, “when all of us are dead....

The pigs can’t stop the fox; I’m too quick,’ Takumi said to himself. “I can rhyme while I run; I’m that slick.

Jesus, why would he hook up with Becca?” “Well, she’s not known for her personality or generosity of spirit, so it’s probably because she’s hot.” “She’s not as hot as you,” I said, before I...

I think God is such a good idea that if God didn’t exist, we’d have to invent God.

You shall love your neighbourWith your crooked heart,It says so much about love and brokenness — it’s perfect.

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

She loves mysteries that she became one.

He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down...

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

… going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so...

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

O mundo não é uma fábrica de conceder desejos.

Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river.’Why do you smoke so damn fast?’ I asked.She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have...

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

Sometimes you loose a battle. But mischief always wins a war.

Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands.

I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.

The Colonel ran ahead of me, gleeful at his ejection, and I jogged after him, trailing in his wake. I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the...

The humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show them how we feel.

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that’s hard to look at..

Mia,’ she whispered. I turned around. ‘What?’ I whispered back.She smiled at me a little. ‘LEEERRROOOY JEEENNKKIINNNSS!’ she shouted, then spun around and ran toward the Z’s in the lighting section.

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period....

If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won’t get either...

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.

It’s not because I want to make out with her.”Hold on.” He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he’d just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at...

The problem with chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to the point where nothing is real.

Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is...

Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had amassed in the shipping business, they had a dream. They had a dream...

A poem can’t do its work if you only read snippets of it.

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it’s impossible to tell because I’m underwater. But he wasn’t...

I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I...

If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.

You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be...