It was not the way Curve smelled that Colin liked – not exactly. It was the way the air smelled just as Lindsey began to jog away from him. The smell of perfume left behind....

Not to sound like a jerk, but Jane isn’t really my type. Her hair’s kinda disastrously curly and she mostly hangs out with guys. My type’s a little girlier. And honestly, I don’t even like...

I didn’t know what to say to her – I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can’t go all the way around.

NO. No no no. I don’t want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the...

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:’I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to...

Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I...

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone’s about to die.

Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like...

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Do the thing you’re good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed,...

…being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? – A.Y.’I’m going to...

I thought: This is not good. I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.

What are you assholes looking at?” “Nothing,” said Radar. “We’re certainly not looking at your eyebrows.

As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.

We are literally in the heart of Jesus,” he said.”I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.””Someone should tell Jesus,” I said. “I mean, it’s gotta...

You had been a paper boy to me all these years – two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned...

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that’s what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through...

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

This is it. I can’t even not smoke anymore

A volte leggi un libro e ti riempie di uno strano zelo evangelico che ti convince che il mondo frantumato che ti circonda non potrà mai ricomporsi a meno che, o fino a quando, tutti...

Everybody’s drunk. Ben drunk. Lacey drunk. Radar drunk. Nobody drive. Home by six. Promised Mom. Boo, Sleepy Quentin! Yay, Designated Driver! YESSSS!

I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and I would be together again. I already knew too many dead people. I...

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn’t think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory – recalled only on the...

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness…I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans...

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happenedlike I imagined them.

He shook his head, just looking at me. – “What?” I asked.- “Nothing” he said.- “Why are you looking at me like that?”Augustus half smiled. “Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and...

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side...

I just think if you don’t say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, “Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friends nose.

Everything’s uglier up close.

I reread An Imperial Affliction until Mom woke up and rolled over toward me around six. She nuzzled her head against my shoulder, which felt uncomfortable and vaguely Augustinian.

Y ahora la vida se ha convertido en el futuro. Vives cada instante de tu vida por el futuro… Vas a la escuela para poder ir a la universidad, y así podrás encontrar un buen...

I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

Here’s the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most,...

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about...

I’m a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think…

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or...

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Nicely phrased.