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Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?
rightly lived - college and job and husband and babies and all that bullshit." The thing is that I do believe
There's not even real *popularity* at my school."
"That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.
"That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.
As far as getting shy around guys goes it's important to remember that they are people in exactly the same way the girls are people.
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.
Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?'
'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him.
'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him.
2. Gets blood on the first try," I said. "Seriously, that is huge. I mean is this my freaking arm or a dartboard?
There is no best and no worst, ... those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is
We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus ...
It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
I felt so detached from all this shit, all this high-school-is-ending-So-we-have-to-reveal-that-deep-down-we-all-love-everybody bullshit.
We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
The thing about dead people ... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is ... complicated, I guess.
You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.
Sinking. Sinking, but instead of feeling panic or anything else, I realized that "Please guys, don't" were terrible last words.
Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.
How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?
How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?
I wish I could say I was in it for the thrill of learning, but mostly I was in it for the thrill of getting into a worthwhile college.
Under the sink, I also found a tub of Vaseline so big that it could have only one possible use, which I didn't care to dwell on.
Holding anger is a poison.
Never regret something that made you smile.
Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you.
Never regret something that made you smile.
Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you.
The correct answer is that we are all feeling like we will be happier after an a cappella rendition of Blister in the Sun.
It's true that I want to smother her with compliments and true that I want to keep my distance. True that I want her to like me and true that I don't.
I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we're gonna want to do when we're old.
You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you, he said.
That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
Cornbread!" he screamed. "CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. "Rice!" "PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER S-A-Ts.
Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou
The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan.
Memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow
But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley
Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's
like to be dying, and (b) not have died.
like to be dying, and (b) not have died.
By saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.