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I'm sorry," she says. I wheel around. "You know, you're a total know-it-all. And it's incredibly rude sometimes; I mean, you're not perfect either, and you act like it's my fault but it's not my fault for being quiet or your fault for being a know-it-all. It's not your problem or my problem; it's their problem. They're the demented ones, not us, so don't take it out on me, because the only thing that holds things together for me is having s..
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Llegara un tiempo, cuando todos nosotros estemos muertos. Todos nosotros. Llegara un tiempo cuando no quedaran mas seres humanos para recordar que alguna vez existimos o que nuestra especie alguna vez hizo algo. No habra nadie que quede para recordar a Aristoteles o a Cleopatra, por no hablar de ti. Todo lo que hicimos, construimos, escribimos, pensamos y descubrimos sera olvidado y todo esto habra sido inutil. Quizas ese tiempo venga pront..
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And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
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How are the eyes?" "Oh, excellent," he said. "I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem." "Awesome, yeah," Gus said. "Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer." "So I heard," Isaac said, trying not to let it get to him. He fumbled toward Gus's hand and found only his thigh. "I'm taken," Gus said."
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Our infinity is bigger than other infinities.
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Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.
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After I finished, there was quite a long period of silence as I watched a smile spread all the way across Augustus's face--not the little crooked smile of the boy trying to be sexy while he stared at me, but his real smile, too big for his face. "Goddamn," Augustus said quietly. "Aren't you something else."
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She never liked me much, but she sure loved me
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And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.
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No puedes elegir si van a hacerte dano en este mundo, pero si eliges quien te lo hace. Me gustan mis elecciones. Y espero que a ella le gusten las suyas.
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someday no one will remember that she ever existed, i wrote in my notebook, and then, or that i did. because memories fall apart, too. and then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.
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She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me.
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looking-for-alaska
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I think the future deserves our faith.
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You can't control it, that's the thing," I said. "Life is not something you wield, you know?"
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves." Easy enough to say when you're a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars."
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Lacey shrugged bashfully. "Do you think I'm superficial?" "Well, yeah." I thought of myself standing outside Becca's bedroom, hoping she'd take her shirt off. "But so am I," I added. "So is everyone."
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Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."
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Oh, no me importaria, Grace Hazel. Seria un privilegio para mi tener el corazon roto por ti.
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The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
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Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.
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So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
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It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.
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In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger.
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You deserve a life.
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hazel
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She was loved deeply, but not widely
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All efforts to save me from you will fail, he said
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The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.
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Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.
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I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think. We're not as frail as the strings would make us believe. And I like the grass, too. The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you as an actual person. But we're not different sprouts from the same plant. I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well - but never quite perfectly, you know?
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quentin
strings
margo
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A desert blessing, an ocean curse.
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You don't know a father's weight until it's lifted.
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Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
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inspirational
growing-up
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We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle
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There's an expression in classical music. It goes, 'We went out to the meadow.' It's for those evenings that can only be described in that way: There were no walls, there were no music stands, there weren't even any instruments. There was no ceiling, there was no floor, we all went out to the meadow. It describes a feeling. (Tom Waits quote) pg 208
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If I die weep at my grave every day until a seedling appears in the dirt, then cry on it to make it grow until it becomes a beautiful tree whose roots surround my body.
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I missed the future.
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Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me.
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I do love you and what else matters but that
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I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.
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Suffering is universal.
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As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.
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quentin-jacobsen
paper-towns
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I can't remember, because I never knew.
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We are now as I wished we could be then.
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We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.
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