That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.