You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.

If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.

Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.