Some infinites are longer than other infinites

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

Headline?” he asked.”‘Swing Set Needs Home,'” I said.”‘Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'” he said.”‘Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'” I said.

I fell in love with you the same way you fall asleep. Slowly then all at once,

It’s just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

I’m on a rollercoaster that only goes up

Oh my god, I am a banana.

I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She...

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...

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room...

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

What’s the point in being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you...

When was the last good kiss you had?

Pain demands to be felt.

As a reader, I don’t feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

If people could see me the way I see myself – if they could live in my memories – would anyone love me?

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn’t want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

Cual es el placer?-La planificacion, supongo. No lo se. Hacer cosas nunca se siente tan bien como esperas que se sentira.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period....

I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly then all at once

I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does that imply a physical location of a heaven containing physical basketballs? Who makes the basketballs in question? Are...

What’s the meaning of life? Other people.

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and your hear all the terrible and woderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you...

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

There’s no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.

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

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort...

You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who...

I spy with my little eye a great story.

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....

To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the...

Let’s put it this way- if The Fault in Our Stars was a person I would marry them. Will Grayson, WIll Grayson would be my maid/man of honor. Alaska and Paper Towns, An Abundance of...

…there are books…which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner...

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really...

I don’t believe in prom,’ I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I’d done this before.

La manera en la que piensas de una persona no es como ellos realmente son.

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

throws of love ballets and magic moments wished for”. However, I wondered if he ever watched National Lampoon’s Vacation. Chevy Chase had purpose, a plan, intent and found Wally World closed. I kind of don’t...

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...

…stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

I love you present tense.

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

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