I brought you a snack, Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book.Very nutritious, I smiled.You've got your oats. You've got your meal. You've got your cream. It's a fuckin' food pyramid.
He missed his imagined future.
Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).
Dear Mr. Peter Van Houten (c/o Lidewij Vliegenthart), My name is Hazel Grace Lancaster. My friend Augustus Waters, who read An Imperial Affliction at my recommendationtion, just received an email fro...
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
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...
As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Margo rolled down the window, and I fel...
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 as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture wa...
All salvation is temporary
All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.
A desert blessing, an ocean curse.
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
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...
Memories fall apart too.
And then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.
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.