We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

We are now as I wished we could be then.

C'mon Pudge. I'm teasing. You have to be tough. I didn't know how bad it was-- and I'm sorry, and they'll regret it-- but you have to be tough.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

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