I've gotten thrown out of thirty-seven straight games,' he said. 'Once or twice, I've had to go really crazy. I ran onto the court with eleven seconds left once and stole the ball from the other team....
I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.
I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
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 love you present tense, I whispered, and then put my hand on the middle of his chest and said, It’s okay, Gus. It’s okay. It is. It’s okay, you hear me? I had—and have—absolutely no confidence that...
I lit up like a Christmas tree, Hazel Grace
I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance...
I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard....
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 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 do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime y...
I could be worse, you know.How? I asked, teasing. I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse.Sounds uns...
I can't remember, because I never knew.
I can't be mad at you, you harmless scrawny bastard.
I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.
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...
Hey Pudge, the Colonel said. What do you think of a truce?It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge, I said. I guess I'd say to this truce offer wha...
Her hair is ridiculous, I said.I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really full...
He wasn’t perfect or anything. He wasn’t your fairy-tale Prince Charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes, but I liked him best when that stuff fell away.