"

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

"

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a reg...more

"

When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

"

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

"

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an a...more

"

How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

"

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

"

I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards...more

"

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

"

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

"

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

"

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

"

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think t...more

"

Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a wal...more

"

...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.