Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities...
So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her.I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of the social order.
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.
Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.
It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and t...
I nudged my head into his shoulder. Thanks for offering to come over.you realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you, he said.i guess? i said.all efforts to...
I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occured to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thoug...
He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
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 whose connection to th...
From the front Rdar announces, Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?Whenever I eat a GoFast bar, Ben says, I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to...
Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over as Patrick acknowledged for the thousandth time his...
And I knew I would remember that feeling, underneath the split-up sky, back before the machinery of fate ground us into one thing or another, back when we could still be everything.
All efforts to save me from you will fail, he said
Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.
The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy.