All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5.

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!

We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?

Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.

He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her

We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

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