Some wars, he said dismissively. What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of m...
So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.
She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.
She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads tou...
She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.
Pero creo en el amor verdadero. ¿Tú no? Creo que no todo el mundo puede conservar sus ojos, o no ponerse enfermo, o lo que sea, pero todo el mundo debería tener amor verdadero, y debería durar como mí...
Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.
Life is a series of choices between wonders.
It always seemed ridiculous to me that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirt...
Ignorance is bliss
I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.
I was thinking about this girl you love so much, she said, And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.
I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.
I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.
I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being...
I get that nothing lasts. But why do I have to miss everybody so much?
I can only hope, Julie said, turning back to Gus, they grow into the kind of thoughtful, intelligent young men you’ve become.I resisted the urge to audibly gag. He’s not that smart, I said to Julie.Sh...
I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts.
He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.