…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....

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.