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But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.
For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.
We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.
Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don't run from nothing... 'cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters can't run fast.
I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.
Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.
Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.
We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.
She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.
You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.
We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.
It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.
And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.
She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.
Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.
Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.
If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.
High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.
It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.
We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.
I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said. "Don't call my boobs funny," I answered.
Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.
"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."
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.
We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?
Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young
Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause
I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.