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.

For the first time in a long time, I drive with no music. I’m not happy-not happy about Jane and Mr. Randall Water Polo Doucheface IV, not happy about Tiny abandoning me without so much...

I just want to stay away from people and read books.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

mysterium tremendum et fascinans– that stomach- flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.

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...

This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don’t touch me—oh, god!

Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river.’Why do you smoke so damn fast?’ I asked.She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have...

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

Jesus, kid, you’re almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives.

Porque é o máximo ser uma ideia que agrada a todos. Mas eu nunca poderia ser aquela ideia para mim, não totalmente.

My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in.

But then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo’s anger at being found, or...

That’s why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you...

A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn’t want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, ‘I...

He aqui un consejo: eres lindo cuando eres seguro de ti. Y menos cuando no eres.

As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.

I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

I did some research on this a couple years ago,” Augustus continued. “I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living...

She loved mysteries so much, that she became one.

I want more numbers that I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our...

We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

Augustus Waters was the Mayor of the Secret City of Cancervania, and he is not replaceable”, Isaac began.”Other people will be able to tell you funny stories about Gus, because he was a funny guy,...

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.