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“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.
"Augustus," I said.
"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
"Augustus," I said.
"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Las cosas nunca suceden como yo las imagino.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Cuando una persona ha significado mucho en nuestras vidas, para bien o para mal, y se ha ido, no debemos tratar de encerrarla en el olvido, porque el olvido tiene una puerta que se abre cuando menos lo esperamos y nos lanza los recuerdos como caballos salvajes que nos patean el alma. Aprenda a domar el recuerdo de esa muchacha. Los recuerdos domados no lastiman...Supongo que algo, bonito, digno de recordar, le habrá dejado...”
― Donde Habitan Los Angeles
― Donde Habitan Los Angeles
“-Cuando tenga ganas de llorar, hágalo-era la voz de mi tío Tacho-. Y hágalo fuerte, sin pena. Es la única forma de que la tristeza se licue y se nos salga del cuerpo. Porque la tristeza es dura, Panchito, muy dura...”
― Donde Habitan Los Angeles
― Donde Habitan Los Angeles
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