Because if it doesn’t happen to you, it doesn’t happen at all.
Mom, tell me what to say. Tell me what words to say to make you calm down about it.
Everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to the sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.
Like a metaphor rendered incomprehensible by its ubiquity, there was room enough in what she had left me for endless imaginings, for an infinite set of Margos.
I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.
And it’s only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
I want to start a fanblog about your ass.
Ma io credo nel vero amore, capisci? Non credo che a tutti sia concesso di tenersi i propri occhi o di non ammalarsi, ma tutti dovrebbero avere un vero amore, e dovrebbe durare almeno quanto dura la tua vita.
On the last day, the bad days seem so difficult to recall.
Aku hanya ingin melakukan sesuatu yang berarti. Atau menjadi sesuatu yang berarti. Aku hanya ingin berarti.
A volte le persone non capiscono le promesse che fanno nel momento in cui le fanno.
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,” Whitman writes. And then for two pages, he’s just hearing: hearing a steam whistle, hearing people’s voices, hearing an opera. He sits on the grass and lets the sound pour through him. And this is what I was trying to do, too, I guess: to listen to all the little sounds of her, because before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I’ve always felt like the Katherines dump me right when they start to see what I look like from the inside.
Jesus, why would he hook up with Becca?” “Well, she’s not known for her personality or generosity of spirit, so it’s probably because she’s hot.” “She’s not as hot as you,” I said, before I could think better of it. “That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
In the darkest days, Lord puts the best people into your life.
Applebee’s is a chain of mid-quality restaurants serving “American food,” which essentially means that Everything Features Cheese.
Let’s just do the thing where we go and see whatever starts next.
I think maybe you try to be odd on purpose. I think you like that. It makes you you and not someone else.
E’ questo il problema del dolore” ha detto Augustus, di nuovo guardandomi. “Esige di essere sentito.
It’s more impressive,” I said out loud. “From a distance, I mean. You can’t see the wear on things, you know? You can’t see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it.” “Everything’s uglier close up,” she said. “Not you,” I answered before thinking better of it.