Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

Omnis cellula e cellula," he said again. "All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes from life. Life begets life begets life begets life begets life.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.