135 quotes found
“It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.”
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believe in an af...”
“Pudge/Colonel: "I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan tomorrow morning. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way you cut me out of ev...”
“I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figur...”
“Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there.”
“Later, I walked towards the dorm circle beside Alaska. The cicadas hummed their one-note song, just as they had at home in Florida. She turned to me as we made our way through the darkness and said...”
“... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.”
“All right. The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.”
“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.”
“Teenagers think they are invincible with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they dont know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think th...”
“Chip, shes gone, and he said, I thought Id feel her looking down on us, but youre right. Shes just gone”
“If people were rain I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
“You cant burn down a made-up place.”
“She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale."DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted.Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts.""That's not any better!”
“And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.""Huh?""Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.”
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
“How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.”
“The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall”
“More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someonewho might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against th...”
“I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.”
