I have guts, just not when it counts.
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...
Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
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...
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...
And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the sce...
Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise? Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they make them, I said.Isaac shot me a look. Right, of course. But...
Actually, the problem is that I lose my mind, I said. It’s inescapable.
A woman so strong she burns heaven and drenches hell.
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...
One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me.-Streetwalking with Jesus
The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy.
You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.
Ya'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
When you leave a place, it's best to leave.
What the hell is that? I laughed.It's my fox hat.Your fox hat?Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.Why are you wearing your fox hat? I asked.Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.