Some infinites are longer than other infinites

I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

I fear oblivion’ he said. “I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we’re disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.

It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.

The fundamental mistake I had always made – and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make – was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not...

how will we ever get out, straight and fast, of this labyrinth of suffering?

Gives you an idea how I feel about you,” he said.My old man. He always knew just what to say.

Los adolescentes piensan que son invencibles”, con esa sonrisa mañosa y estúpida en sus rostros, no saben cuán en lo correcto están. Necesitamos no perder nunca la esperanza, porque nunca nos podemos romper de manera...

And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.

why do you have to fix the salad? who broke it? i didn’t touch it. did you break the salad, mom? if you did, YOU’D BETTER FIX IT!

She loved so much misteries tha she became one

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn’t planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

I am thinking that I don’t want this to happen. I don’t want to die. I don’t want my friends to die. And to be honest, as the time slows down and my hands are...

We think of infinity as a really big number, but it’s not. It’s endlessness. Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.

And in that space, Colin thought, there was room enough to reinvent himself–room enough to make himself into something other than a prodigy, to remake his story better and different–room enough to reborn again and...

En français.

I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died....

It’s hard as hell to hold onto 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 the...

I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were...

Augustus Waters was sitting on the front step as we pulled into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange tulips just beginning to bloom.

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!

—,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...

Spoiler alert. Mayhem lives.

Books—they weren’t ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

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.

A Margo for each of us–and each more mirror than window.

10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5.

i’d been in the dark so long I was still craving it.

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner

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...

and the HE stands up. if frenchy’s could bottle him up and sell him as porn, they’d probably own half of chicago within a year. he’s what would happen after nine months if abercrombie fucked...

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws....

but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

…iubirea mea, nu-ți pot spune c t de recunoscătoare sunt pentru mica noastră infinitate. N-aș schimba-o pentru nimic în lume. Tu mi-ai oferit o veșnicie în interiorul zilelor numărate și pentru asta îți sunt recunoscătoare.

…and on that thin-mooned night, I could see little more than her silhoutte except for when she smoked, the burning cherry of the cigarette washing her face in pale red light.

When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds,” I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and...

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

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

The problem, of course, is that there’s no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it’s just another good day.

I’m a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32)

Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.

I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or...

A poem can’t do its work if you only read snippets of it.

It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.”Right, it’s primarily his hotness,’ I said.’It can be sort of blinding,’ he said.’It actually did blind our friend Isaac,’ I said.’Terrible tragedy,...

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.