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When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

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So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

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The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder un...more

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I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to ...more

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I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the wh...more

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It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

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That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt...

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Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced; it was agreed that frien...more

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Well to be fair, I said, I mean she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have to handle it. And you do.

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and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this wil...more

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Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain wh...more

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Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

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If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

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The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess.

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The marks humans leave are too often scars.