Las cosas nunca suceden como yo las imagino.
It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.
I've gotten really hot since you went blind.
I mean, we're ninjas.Well maybe a ninja, I saidYou're just a really loud, awkward ninja, Margo said, but we are both ninjas.
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.
He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. You're so hot, I said, my hand still on his leg. I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish, he answered, still kissing me. I laughed.I have an Au...
Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I...
Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory.
We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.
What can we do? Mom asked again.I shrugged.But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my leg...
That tastes like hope feels.
Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
LoveI'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 in the business of d...
I’m in love with you, and I’m not in thebusiness of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivio...
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
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...
As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.Huh?Pudge, the Colonel said. Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.
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 and he was not in his, but instead we were together...