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Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you say, “I have a headache!” and other ...more

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But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

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What a slut time is. She screws with everybody.

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What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies th...more

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It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

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Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom ...more

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He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because yo...more

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I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or ...more

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...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

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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 e...more

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You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you

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It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted fo...more

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We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I ...more

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I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

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Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I kn...more