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No headboards were broken.
From The Fault in Our Stars
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Topic: Funny
There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.”

“And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick.

“Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.
From The Fault in Our Stars
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Topic: Life
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Life
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Death
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Death
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Death
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
From The Fault in Our Stars
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Topic: Death
Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.
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Topic: Death
Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of the social order.

We have discovered as a species that it is useful to have an educated population. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from public education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from public education.

So let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools, even though I don't personally have a kid in school: It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.
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Topic: Education
It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?
From The Fault in Our Stars
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Topic: Inspirational
Some people have lives; some people have music.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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Topic: Funny, Life
Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together."
What?"
Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud."
That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."
The people who've been in your secret hiding places."
The people you bite your thumb in front of."
Hi."
Hi."
..."
..."
Wow. My first Lindsey."
My second Colin."
That was fun. Let's try it again."
Sold."
..."
..."
..."
...
From An Abundance of Katherines
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Topic: Funny
As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
From Paper Towns
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Topic: Funny
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r
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Topic: Hope
I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.
From The Fault in Our Stars
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Topic: Life
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Death
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Death
You can't just make me different and then leave
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Death
The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
From The Fault in Our Stars
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Topic: Death
When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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Topic: Inspirational, Life
You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her... I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even get along with. but I don't know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Relationships
Ich hasste Sport. Ich hasste Sport, und ich hasste Sportler, und ich hasste Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, und ich hasste Leute, die Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, nicht hassten.
From Looking for Alaska
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Topic: Sports
The Colonel led all the cheers.
Cornbread!" he screamed.
CHICKEN!" the crowd responded.
Rice!"
PEAS!"
And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs."
Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried.
YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?
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Topic: Funny
No headboards were broken.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.”

“And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick.

“Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of the social order.

We have discovered as a species that it is useful to have an educated population. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from public education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from public education.

So let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools, even though I don't personally have a kid in school: It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Some people have lives; some people have music.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny, Life
Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together."
What?"
Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud."
That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."
The people who've been in your secret hiding places."
The people you bite your thumb in front of."
Hi."
Hi."
..."
..."
Wow. My first Lindsey."
My second Colin."
That was fun. Let's try it again."
Sold."
..."
..."
..."
...
From An Abundance of Katherines
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
From Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
You can't just make me different and then leave
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational, Life
You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her... I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even get along with. but I don't know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Ich hasste Sport. Ich hasste Sport, und ich hasste Sportler, und ich hasste Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, und ich hasste Leute, die Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, nicht hassten.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
The Colonel led all the cheers.
Cornbread!" he screamed.
CHICKEN!" the crowd responded.
Rice!"
PEAS!"
And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs."
Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried.
YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
No headboards were broken.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.”

“And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick.

“Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of the social order.

We have discovered as a species that it is useful to have an educated population. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from public education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from public education.

So let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools, even though I don't personally have a kid in school: It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Some people have lives; some people have music.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny, Life
Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together."
What?"
Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud."
That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."
The people who've been in your secret hiding places."
The people you bite your thumb in front of."
Hi."
Hi."
..."
..."
Wow. My first Lindsey."
My second Colin."
That was fun. Let's try it again."
Sold."
..."
..."
..."
...
From An Abundance of Katherines
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
From Paper Towns
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
You can't just make me different and then leave
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
From The Fault in Our Stars
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.
From Will Grayson, Will Grayson
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational, Life
You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her... I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even get along with. but I don't know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Ich hasste Sport. Ich hasste Sport, und ich hasste Sportler, und ich hasste Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, und ich hasste Leute, die Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, nicht hassten.
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
The Colonel led all the cheers.
Cornbread!" he screamed.
CHICKEN!" the crowd responded.
Rice!"
PEAS!"
And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs."
Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried.
YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!
From Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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