Esme Sullivan was the kind of woman who kept an acorn on every windowsill to ward off bad spirits, and boiled old shoes in a Dutch oven to guard against snakes coming into the yard. When her cat sat with its back to the fire, she prepared
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“The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters’s death was Augustus Waters.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Some war,” he said dismissively. “What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Any two people can set and jaw all day long, but it takes two people right for each other to set together and just be quiet.”
― A Parchment of Leaves
― A Parchment of Leaves
“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”
― Eli the Good
― Eli the Good
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