In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

I do, Augustus. I do.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.