Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. Did you like it? His dad asked.Yup, Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turni...
Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down
Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.
Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).
Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans.But you are an American.Incurably so, it seems.
Estoy enamorado de ti, y no estoy en el negocio de negarme el simple placer de decir cosas verdaderas. Estoy enamorado de ti, y sé que este amor es sólo un grito en el vacío, y este olvido es inevitab...
Estoy enamorado de ti, y no estoy en la situación de negarme el simple placer de decir verdades. Estoy enamorado de ti, y sé que el amor es un grito en el vacío, y sé que el olvido es inevitable, y qu...
Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly r...
Eventually, he found the bed too comfortable for his state of mind, so he lay down on his back, his legs sprawled across the carpet. He anagrammed yrs forever until he found one he liked: sorry fever....
Every paper girl needs at least one string.
Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.
Formerly a prodigy. Formerly full of potential. Currently full of shit.
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to e...
God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will. -The Colonel
Hazel Grace, he said, my name new and better in his voice. It has been a real pleasure to make your acquaintance.Ditto, Mr. Waters, I said. I felt shy looking at him. I could not match the intensity o...
He kept thinking about one word—forever—and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he’d ever gotten.
He presses his forehead down on the podium and I watched his shoulders shake, and then finally, he said, Goddamn it, Augustus, editing your own eulogy.Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus, Gus sa...
He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.
He responded a few minutes later.Okay.I wrote back.Okay.He responded:Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!
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