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 want to get...
Augustus, I said. Really. You don't have to do this.Sure I do, he said. I found my Wish.God, you're the best, I told him.I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel, he an...
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of...
All writing is rewriting.
If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.
We were kissing.I thought: This is good.I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all.I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.Suddenly she laughed and pull...
We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken
We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome.
Sería un honor tener el corazón roto por ti, Hazel Grace.
Poetry is just so emo. he said. Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the re...
Long week. Long month. Long life.
It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.
I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, he said. And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you, I said.
I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
I go to seek a Great Perhaps. That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.
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.
I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going...
He’s not that smart.She’s right, Augustus says. It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.Right, it’s primarily his hotness.It can be sort of blinding, he sai...
Cover me!' Augustus said as he jumped out from behind the wall and raced toward the school. Isaac fumbled for his controller and thenstarted firing while the bullets rained down on Augustus, who was s...