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

In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it,...

…It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

Love”I’m in love with you,” he said quietly.”Augustus,”I said.”I am,” he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not...

You deserve a life.

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.

Sometimes you loose a battle. But mischief always wins a war.

Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands.

Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?

i feel like my life is so scattered right now. like it’s all these small pieces of paper and someone’s turned on the fan. but talking to you makes me feel like the fan’s been...

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

I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

That poem is so damned long. You’d think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

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

Is it still cool to go to the mall?’ she asked. ‘I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what’s cool,’ I answered.

Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.