Some infinites are longer than other infinites

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 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...

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

what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals.

I’m just very, very fond of you.

the world wasn’t made for us, we were made for the world

Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?

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

I love you present tense.

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...

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can’t stop pissing on...

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

El Tulipan Holandés contemplaba la marea, que estaba subiendo. -Ensambla, unifica, envenena, corrige, revela. Mira cómo sube y baja, y se lleva todo consigo. + ,Qué es? – Le pregunté. -Agua- me contestó el Holandés-....

He shook his head, just looking at me. – “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...

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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

I’m on a rollercoaster that only goes up

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

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.

But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.

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

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...

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...

…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.

I felt bashful, like I had when I’d first told him of An Imperial Affliction. “Um, okay. Okay. ‘Let us go, trough certain half-deserted streets,/ The muttering retreats/ Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels/...

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

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...

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

…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.

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.

I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.

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

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

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.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

Even though I was in bed and he was in his basement, it really felt like we were back in that uncreated third space, which was a place I really liked visiting with him.

…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.

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,’ Augustus interrupted. ‘Please to be eating your sandwich and...

I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

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...

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.

Maybe ‘Okay’ will be our ‘always’…