“If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“The past is a curious thing. It’s with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it’s got no reality, it’s just a set of facts that you’ve learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn’t merely come back to you, you’re actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.”
― Coming up for Air
― Coming up for Air
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