Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to their murderer. I certainly will not be mentioning the murderer. I don't think he warrants our attention-particularly since he so clearly wanted it.

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.