Ayush Tiwari > Ayush's Quotes

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?”
― Rudy Francisco

“I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we’d only find yours.”
― Rudy Francisco

“I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared… but reckless.”
― Rudy Francisco

“The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words ‘you are still alive.’ You are still alive. Act like it.”
― Rudy Francisco

“Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.”
― Rudy Francisco

“She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.

I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.

If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,

I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories

“I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”
― Rudy Francisco

“My definition of love is being robbed in an alley eight times in a row and hoping that there’s something about today that makes all of this different.”
― Rudy Francisco

“The difference between a garden and a graveyard is only what you choose to put in the ground”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“Some days I forget that my skin is not a panic room.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
― R. Arnold

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets