Were she better, or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, ‘The fault,...
Van Houten,I’m a good person but a shitty writer. You’re a shitty person but a good writer. We’d make a good team. I don’t want to ask you any favors, but if you have time – and from what I saw, you h...
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd do...
The marks humans leave are too ofter scars.
The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, They'll remember me now, but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) al...
Stupid human voices always ruining everything.
Stole this from a lizard for you - D
So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost
Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
Love is the most common miracle.
Long week. Long month. Long life.
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.
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people...
If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
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...
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being obse...
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.
Everything's uglier close up, she said.Not you, I answered.
Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned; leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life ou...