Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.
Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.
Augustus Waters was sitting on the front step as we pulled into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange tulips just beginning to bloom.
As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.
Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.
Nothing, I said. I’m just… I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. I’m just very, very fond of you.
If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.
I nodded. 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 existentially fraught free throws. I l...
When was the last good kiss you had?
The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.
Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five abo...
So if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.
She didn’t understand why it was happening, he said. I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven....
Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
I want more numbers that I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade...
Between the three of us, we have five legs, four eyes & two & a half working pairs of lungs.
I can't go to Amsterdam. One of my doctors thinks it's a bad idea.He was quiet for a second. God, he said. I should've just paid for it myself. Should've just taken you straight from the Funky Bones t...
He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. You're so hot, I said, my hand still on his leg. I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish, he answered, still kissing me. I laughed.I have an Au...
I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity