I sat at the computer, my eyes closed, elbows against the desk, and listened to a voice singing in a minor key.
Over lattes – which, the waiter explained to us, the Dutch called “wrong coffee” because it had more milk than coffee – we sat in the lacy shade of a huge chestnut tree and recounted for Mom our encounter with the great Peter Van Houten.
New wars started even before the old ones were won.
That’s the thing about Tiny: his problems are so huge that yours can hide behind them.
Sometimes you need your best friend to walk through the doors.
You think you’re the painter, but really you’re the canvas.” – John Green.
It was a long list. The world contains a lot of dead people.
He put his arms around me and squeezed tight, so that I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought “God we must look so lame,” but it doesn’t matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.
Gets blood on the first try,” I said. “Seriously, that is huge. I mean is this my freaking arm or a dartboard?
You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
I don’t believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.
We age slower when we move quickly versus standing still.
It was the night before Christmas.
I find mental disorders to be vastly overrated. Madness, in my admittedly limited experience, is accompanied by no superpowers; being mentally unwell doesn’t make you loftily intelligent any more than having the flu does.
Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was just a fine and precious thing.
I intend to live an extraordinary life.
Il dolore esige di essere sentito.
The school felt more mine than in all my four years there.
I liked the way his story ended with someone else.
I don’t ever want to do that to you,” I told him. “Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.