If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

I do, Augustus. I do.

A paper town for a paper girl.

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.