"the point is that there are always answers."
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"the point is that there are always answers."
"maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again."
"No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?"
"I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal."
"But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another."
"Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people."
"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."
"The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?"
"It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn’t. I knew it, and I hated her for it. I hated her for not caring about me. I hated her for leaving that night, and I hated myself , too, not only because I let her go but because if I had been enough for her, she wouldn’t have even wanted to leave. She would have just lain with me and talked and cried, and I would have listened and kissed at her tears as they pooled in her eyes."
"The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny."
"I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable."
"When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals"
"I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance."
"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts."
"me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?"
"I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus."
"And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people."
"I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies."
"Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable."
"Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future."