I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

I’m a roller coaster that only foes up.

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 I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler...

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...

My heart is really pounding,” I said.”That’s how you know you’re having fun,” Margo said.

But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn’t really emotionally ready to write about at ten.”Fair enough,’ I say. ‘But in the revision, I...

there’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

Te pasas toda la vida atorado en el laberinto, pensando en cómo vas a escapar de ahí un día y que fabuloso será; imaginar ese futuro te mantiene con vida, pero nunca te escapas. Sólo...

She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.

and i’m thinking, aren’t i supposed to be the one who’s freaking out here? tiny is going to be the first b-b-b- (i can’t do it) boy-f-f-f (c’mon, will) boyf-boyf (here we go) boyfriend of...

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn’t going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58)

ya’ll smoke to enjoy, i smoke to die..

You don’t give a shit if people like you.

Maybe ‘Okay’ will be our ‘always’…

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

She’s still taking on water.” A desert blessing, an ocean curse.What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know...

Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they’re true, because people are basically...

Pero yo creo en el amor verdadero, ,sabes? No creo que todo el mundo se queda con los ojos o no enfermarse o lo que sea, pero todo el mundo debería tener al menos verdadero...

What a slut time is.She screws everybody.

pg. 231-232: They’d given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around...

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.

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