I was so frustrated with him. I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your...
I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won. Illness is a story told in the past tens...
I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was...
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.
I think forever is an incorrect concept, I answered.He smirked. You're an incorrect concept.I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation.
I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.
I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took free throws. I liked that he was a tenured prof...
I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not, Takumi said.
I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that's not an easy thing to do. I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.
I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how wo...
I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.
I don't know what superpower William James enjoyed, but I can no more choose my thoughts than choose my name.
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.
How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.
Hold on. He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. I just did some calculations, and I've been able to det...
He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe inhaving a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers...
He responded a few minutes later.Okay.I wrote back.Okay.He responded:Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!
He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.
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...