There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that we are sur...
The world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish he answered, still kissing me. I laughed. I have an Augustus Waters fetish I explained.
I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. Funny, he said.Don't call my boobs funny, I answered.
I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again...
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being obse...
He’s not that smart.She’s right, Augustus says. It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.Right, it’s primarily his hotness.It can be sort of blinding, he sai...
Gus: It tastes like...Me: Food.Gus: Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?Me: It does not taste like God Himself cooked heav...
Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over as Patrick acknowledged for the thousandth time his...
Cover me!' Augustus said as he jumped out from behind the wall and raced toward the school. Isaac fumbled for his controller and thenstarted firing while the bullets rained down on Augustus, who was s...
Between the three of us, we have five legs, four eyes & two & a half working pairs of lungs.
Augustus Waters was the Mayor of the Secret City of Cancervania, and he is not replaceable, Isaac began.Other people will be able to tell you funny stories about Gus, because he was a funny guy, but l...
Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold...
As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it.What’s that? Anna asked.Wa...
Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren.
A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, 'I have wonderful news!' and I was...
Some infinites are longer than other infinites
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