Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than...
Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.
I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river. 'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I asked. She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant gree...
All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.
And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.
I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up
What's the meaning of life? Other people.
Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentall...
you gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little infinity
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly...
We think of infinity as a really big number, but it’s not. It’s endlessness. Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.
Oh my god, I am a banana.
ya'll smoke to enjoy, i smoke to die..
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.
I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!
There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.
