Ignorance is bliss
I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.
I think the future deserves our faith.
I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being amazed that only a few minutes had passed since I...
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 mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.
I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks....
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! In reality, How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! were probably not Simon Bolivar's last words (although he did, historically, say them). His last words...
Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds.
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...
Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears.
Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.
As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it.What’s that? Anna asked.Wa...
And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms t...
Also, it was a bit hopeless, he said. A bit defeatist.If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree.I don't think defeatism is honest, Dad answered. I refuse to accept that.
All salvation is temporary, Augustus shot back. I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel...
I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy,...
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple iden...
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.