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Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

A drink this good deserves one's best posture.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.