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“Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.”
― The Last House on Needless Street
― The Last House on Needless Street
“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“I judge people two ways—on how they treat animals, and on what they like to eat. If their favorite food is some kind of salad, they are definitely a bad person. Anything with cheese, they are probably OK.”
― The Last House on Needless Street
― The Last House on Needless Street
“The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.”
― The Last House on Needless Street
― The Last House on Needless Street
“How many times can someone bend before they break forever? You have to take care, dealing with broken things; sometimes they give way, and break others in their turn.”
― The Last House on Needless Street
― The Last House on Needless Street
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