I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the harde...
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and...
I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.
I am awful. I am heartless. I am scared that these things are actually true.
God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.
Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were I go to seek a Great Perhaps. That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.
Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave
Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper
Can't wear it to the opera, said the Colonel, almost smiling. Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go.
By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy.
And then, in boating supplies, Margo located an air horn. She took it out of the box and held it up in the air, and I said, No, and she said, No what? And I said, No don't blow the air horn, except wh...
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters' death was Augustus Waters.
It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and...
The afterlife mattered to me. Heaven and hell and reincarnation. As much as I wanted to know how Alaska had died, I wanted to know where she was now, if anywhere.
No one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean look at it Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all th...
You don't get to choose if you fet hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.
When you stop wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stop suffering when they do.
When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they w...
We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.