She was still real. She was still alive, She was as much a person as any other person; you're real, but not because of your body or because of your thoughts.
She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.
She never liked me much, but she sure loved me
People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?
Our infinity is bigger than other infinities.
One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways pain is the opposite of...
Of course, sweetie, his mom said. We'll be here all day. You just come down whenever you want and we love you and you're so so special, Colin, and you can't possibly let this girl make you think other...
Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him,...
Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter.
Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering
Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?
Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
No one is dead as long as someone is still alive
No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.
My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great sat-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of...
Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus bro...
Mueres en medio de tu vida, a la mitad de una frase.
Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.
Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or w...