it was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. i wanted to be the last one she loved.

For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.

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

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel ... it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.