Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

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 will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as a I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.