How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

We fatties have a bond, dude. It’s like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don’t know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got these secret fugging lairs in the center of...

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out,...

I can’t go to Amsterdam. One of my doctors thinks it’s a bad idea.”He was quiet for a second. “God,” he said. “I should’ve just paid for it myself. Should’ve just taken you straight from...

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read...

At least it was instant. At least there wasn’t any pain.”I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn’t get it.There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn’t go...

Big, ugly homes for big, ugly people,’ I told Margo as we pulled into Casavilla.’No shit. If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms, do me...

Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

I am concussed,’ I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.”You’re fine,’ Takumi said as he jogged back towards me. ”Let’s get out of here before we’re killed.””I’m sorry,’ I said. ”But I can’t get up....

My thoughts are stars i cannot fathom into constellations

All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn’t there can hurt you.

I know it’s impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you’re older, you start to see them—the bad kids and the good kids and all kids—as people. They’re just people, who deserve...

… if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

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

When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your pain on a scale of one to ten, and from there they decide which drugs to...

Is it still cool to go to the mall?’ she asked. ‘I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what’s cool,’ I answered.

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.