You can’t burn down a made-up place.

A quote says a lot about the author !

There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when...

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what...

Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to...

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that’s a lie, and you know it.

The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

The world,” he said, “is not a wish-granting factory,” and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs...

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

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

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

Don’t worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

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

This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU’RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he did not quite know what “it” was.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

But mothers lie. It’s in the job description.

What a slut time is. She screws everybody.

Gus: “It tastes like…”Me: “Food.”Gus: “Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately…?”Me: “It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a...

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts/

Las cosas nunca suceden como yo las imagino.

They don’t plant in rows because they’re idiots,and they don’t use farm equipment because they’re idiots,and they don’t plant in spring because they’re idiots..

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

Please stop. I said. You’re upsetting the black Santas.

We told Mom about the Anne Frank House, leaving out the kissing.”Did you go back to chez Van Houten afterward?” Mom asked.Augustus didn’t even give me time to blush.”Nah, we just hung out at a...

Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

If we’d put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone’s flowers. I wanted them to be mt flowers.

I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when...

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing ‘Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals’ t-shirts: Doesn’t it depend on what my goals are?

The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,” and the Colonel whispered, “I’m so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,” and I said, “No. Not past tense.” She wasn’t even a person anymore, just...

Cover me!’ Augustus said as he jumped out from behind the wall and raced toward the school. Isaac fumbled for his controller and thenstarted firing while the bullets rained down on Augustus, who was shot...

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he...

…the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much – Lindsey to Colin, ch.14

Perhaps okay will be our always.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friends nose.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

sametimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

The longer I do my job … the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone...

I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house...

…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like...

Because you may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps. That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

Me olvidarán, pero pero las historias persistirán. Y por eso todos importamos quizá menos que muchos, pero siempre más que nadie