You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.

there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is

And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.

Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.

"Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas."

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

You can't not like "The Great Gatsby." It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.