“I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't much matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“We are driving through the place that she could not drive through, passing onto asphalt she never saw, and we are not dead. We are not dead! We are breathing and we are crying and now slowing down and moving back into the right lane.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“Memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must…”— John Green, Old Man, amazon.com
“Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“Run and hide your crazy and start actin’ like a lady 'Cause I raised you better, gotta keep it together Even when you fall apart”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”— Margaret Mitchell, amazon.com
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com