I don't think you're dying, I said. I think you've just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows humor.
How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?
He shook his head, just looking at me.What? I asked.Nothing, he said.
Have you really read all those books in your room?Alaska laughing- Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was litt...
For some reason, I wanted to tell him the truth. Whether it hurts is kind of irrelevant. That’s a pretty good life motto, he said.
Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness
Augustus: You probably need some rest.Me: I’m okay.Augustus: Okay. (Pause.) What are you thinking about?Me: You.Augustus: What about me?Me: ‘I do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections...
And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much dep...
And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d...
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.
Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just wan...
معلم علوممون پرسید کی بین ما تا حالا دربارۀ زندگی بین ابرها رؤیاپردازی کرده و همه دستاشون رو بردن بالا. اونوقت معلممون بهمون گفت که بین ابرها باد با سرعت دویست کیلومتر در ساعت در حال وزیدنه و دمای...
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness. He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and was now reciting it. But while you were looki...
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you, he said.
You just use the future to escape the present.
You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness...