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....
People always get used to beauty, though. I haven’t gotten used to you just yet
On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.
Sin dolor, no podriamos conocer la alegria
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds, I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back wi...
I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like:...
I would always be like this, always have this within me. There was no beating it. I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me. My self and the disease were knotted together for life.
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...
I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned...
I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark
A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.
To be alive is to be missing.
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.
But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there...
You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are al...
Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.
What? I asked.Nothing, he said.
Some infinites are longer than other infinites
If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
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...
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