So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?

When was the last good kiss you had?

It's bad for your brain not to unplug.

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.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.