I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.

Study broadly and without fear.

If you don’t know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. It’s like fight club.

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.