"I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you."
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"But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman."
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"Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether—to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteeen-year-olds you no doubt revile—there is a point to it all."
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"You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town."
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"Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you."
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"What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV."
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"No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around."
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"You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful."
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"I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that."
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"It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things."
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"It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you."
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"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."
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"I may die young, but at least I'll die smart."
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"A paper town for a paper girl."
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"She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different."
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"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you."
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"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."
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"Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself."
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"To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person."
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"Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'."
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