I don’t care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. … You say you’re not special because the world doesn’t know about you, but that’s...

…But there’s always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there’s a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and...

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can’t stop pissing on...

If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all

All right. The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I’ve got sarcastic company.

A nonhot boy stares at you and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy…well.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won’t be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at...

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,’ Augustus interrupted. ‘Please to be eating your sandwich and...

I have an Augustus Waters fetish,” I explained.

Llega un momento en el que nos damos cuenta que nuestros padres no se pueden salvar ellos mismos ni salvarnos a nosotros, que a todos los que navegan por el tiempo, tarde o temprano, la...

Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54)

—,Qué más? Ella es tan hermosa. No te cansas de verla. Nunca te preocupas si es más inteligente que tú: sabes que lo es. Es graciosa sin querer serlo. La amo. Soy tan afortunado de...

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

The prank is entitled “Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm”.

It rather goes without saying that Katherine drank her coffee black. Katherines do, generally. They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.

Columpios apedofilados que se sienten solos buscan culos de niños” ~ Hazel, Bajo la misma estrella.

The rides aren’t working. Everything cool is locked up. Most of the animals are put into different tanks at night.’ She turned her head and appraised the SeaWorld we could see. ‘I guess the pleasure...

I was blind and heart broken and didn’t want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, “I have wonderful news!” And I was like, “I don’t really want to hear wonderful...

I don’t know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple...

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you’d wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have...

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be...

…you take your humor where you can get it.

Everything looks uglier close up.

.. the smell of canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer, saying their r’s and g’s in a way I’d never learn. I missed the future. Obviously I knew...

Issac:”I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.”Computer: “I don’t understand-“Issac: “Me neither. Pause

Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?” the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. “Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It’s like, instead of blood, your heart pumps liquid suck! But thanks for the beer!

I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go...

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.

Most parents don’t know really their children.

I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

Llega un momento en que nos damos cuenta de que nuestros padres no se pueden salvar a ellos mismos ni salvarnos a nosotros,que a todos los que navegan por el tiempo,tarde o temprano,la corriente los...

From the front Rdar announces, “Don’t you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?””Whenever I eat a GoFast bar,” Ben says, “I’m always like, ‘So this is what...

What’s the pleasure?’ I asked.’Planning, I guess. I don’t know. Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

Pudge/Colonel: “I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan tomorrow morning. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way...

You can’t burn down a made-up place.

A quote says a lot about the author !

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 you believe that there are things...

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You...

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off.”Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. “You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.

Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it...