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"Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."
"Without pain, we couldn't know joy."
"So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths."
"I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies."
"Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business."
"You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting."
"You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore."
"When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s the trick."
"I do love you and what else matters but that"
"Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS." I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy."
"In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)"
"A drink this good deserves one's best posture."
"but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers"
"I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring."
"Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all."
"At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice."
"...Kaitlyn never wore open-toed shoes on account of how she hated her feet because she felt her second toes were too long, as if the second toe was a window into the soul or something."
"I love you present tense,” I whispered, and then put my hand on the middle of his chest and said, “It’s okay, Gus. It’s okay. It is. It’s okay, you hear me?” I had—and have—absolutely no confidence that he could hear me. I leaned forward and kissed his cheek. “Okay,” I said. “Okay."
"Oh, my god," Augustus said. "i can't believe i have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes." "i was thirteen," i said again, although of course i was only thinking "crush crush crush crush crush". I was flattered but changed the subject immediately."
"I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars, and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis."