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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
From The Fault in Our Stars
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Topic: Inspirational
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Religion
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Religion
Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.
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Topic: Funny
Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Funny
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.
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Topic: Funny
I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!
From The Fault in Our Stars
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Topic: Life
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Life
Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”
Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.”
Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.”
Mom: “Television is a passivity.”
Me: “Ugh, Mom, please.”
Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”
Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.”
Mom: “You don’t take pot, for starters.”
Me: “See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”
Mom: “You’re going to Support Group.”
Me: “UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”
Mom: “Hazel, you deserve a life.
From The Fault in Our Stars
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Topic: Life
I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.
From Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
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Topic: Life
I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
From The Fault in Our Stars
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Topic: Death
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Death
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
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Topic: Inspirational
It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
From Turtles All the Way Down
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Topic: Relationships
Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis.
From Paper Towns
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Topic: Funny
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
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Topic: Funny
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.
From Paper Towns
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Topic: Funny
She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth."
"Um, okay. So what is it?"
"Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Philosophical
Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."
Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.
From Paper Towns
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Topic: Philosophical
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Life
I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.
From Paper Towns
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Topic: Life
I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.
From The Fault in Our Stars
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Topic: Death
I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”
Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.”
Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.”
Mom: “Television is a passivity.”
Me: “Ugh, Mom, please.”
Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”
Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.”
Mom: “You don’t take pot, for starters.”
Me: “See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”
Mom: “You’re going to Support Group.”
Me: “UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”
Mom: “Hazel, you deserve a life.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.
From Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
From Turtles All the Way Down
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis.
From Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.
From Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth."
"Um, okay. So what is it?"
"Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."
Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.
From Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.
From Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”
Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.”
Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.”
Mom: “Television is a passivity.”
Me: “Ugh, Mom, please.”
Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”
Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.”
Mom: “You don’t take pot, for starters.”
Me: “See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”
Mom: “You’re going to Support Group.”
Me: “UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”
Mom: “Hazel, you deserve a life.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.
From Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
From Turtles All the Way Down
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis.
From Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.
From Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth."
"Um, okay. So what is it?"
"Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."
Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.
From Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.
From Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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