WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? Tiny shouts in my ear, and I want to say, “Hopefully, go find a guy who knows there is no u in awesome

All efforts to save me from you will fail, he said

Oh my God. I’ve seen him at parties. The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you’re interested in him. But, oh sweet holy Lord, I would ride...

There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you’re sixteen, and that’s having a kid who bites it from cancer.

It was sunny, a rarity for Indiana in April, and everyone at the farmers’ market was wearing short sleeves even though the temperature didn’t quite justify it. We Hoosiers are excessively optimistic about summer.

No puedes escoger si serás lastimada en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quien te lastima.

No me gusta la frase “amigos de Internet”, porque implica que la gente que conoces en línea no son realmente tus amigos, que de alguna manera la amistad es menos real o significativo para ti,...

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?

Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together.”What?”Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud.”That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”The people who’ve been in your...

Maybe ‘Okay’ will be our ‘always’…

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

Ma’am,’ Augustus said, nodding toward her, ‘your daughter’s car has just been deservedly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we’ll be forced to call the police.’ After...

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can’t really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks....

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

People are such idiots. As if there’s something wrong with being in love.

this is the rough part, okay? so just stay tuned for the good part. i promise it’ll come soon.

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive...

I don’t understand why you’re so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery.

You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate...

I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

All salvation is temporary, . . . I bought them a minute. Maybe that’s the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one’s gonna buy them...

It’s like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don’t please her – I get shut out.

Maybe ‘okay’ will be our ‘always

El mundo – dijo -, no es una fábrica de conceder deseos.

Shouldn’t letting go be painless if you’ve never learned how to hold on?

The last time I was this scared, I peed myself.””The last time I was this scared,” Radar says, “I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.

Are you crying, Hazel Grace?””Kind of?””Why?” he asked.”‘Cause I’m just-I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don’t want my...

Here’s what’s not beautiful about it: from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what they place really is. You see how fake it all is....

Well yeah, but now I’m highly motivated to get you out.” This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you...

On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of our social calendars: standing outside the side door that led into the band...

I got my laptop out from under the bed and fired it up and went onto his wall page, where already the condolences were flooding in. Themost recent one said:I love you, bro. See you...

I thought I’d feel her looking down on us, but you’re right. She’s just gone

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me...

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can’t due to deadness.

They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.

I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole...

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they...

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We...

There will come a time,’ I said, ‘when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or...

Maybe Harry Potter is real and you’re not.

I feel like I might start crying and that I’m going to cry pee.

I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters

I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I’m not whatever-her-name-is. I don’t think it’s oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love...

and then I couldn’t wait anymore, and my hand was on the back of her head, and then her lips on mine, the cold air gone and replaced with the warmth of her mouth, soft...

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim...