Best day of my life hasn't happened yet. But I know it. I see it every day. The best day of my life is the day I buy my mom a huge fucking house. And not just like out in the woods, but in the middle of Mountain Brook, with all the Weekday Warriors' parents. With all y'all's parents. And I'm not buying it with a mortgage either. I'm buying it with cash money, and I am driving my mom there, and I'm going to open her side of the car door and she'll get out and look at this house—this house is like picket fence and two stories and everything, you know—and I'm going to hand her the keys to her house and I'll say, 'Thanks.' Man, she helped fill out my application to this place. And she let me come here, and that's no easy thing when you come from where we do, to let your son go away to school. So that's the best day of my life.
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NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO You are always here with me when I do so, at least in my heart, and it is impossible for me to remem... NICHOLAS SPARKS Some days i wake up ready to take one huge risk, push myself past the limits of my mind and body, bu... AMIR RIVEROLL It's hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won't... NICHOLAS SPARKS God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and ... MAGIC JOHNSON Let it be known--from this day forth, I vow to protect Meghan Chase, daughter of the Summer King, wi... JULIE KAGAWA She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the... DAISY WHITNEY I'm going to say this because I know my fans like my brutal honesty. Every year, all the competitors... TONY STEWART Sara is the kind of artist I could listen to every day for the rest of my life and, honestly, never ... 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GILLIAN FLYNN Oh my, this is amazing. I practiced hard every day and just tried to do my best, and it all paid off... JOE POWERS you really think im happy what just because i smile haha thats a joke is the devil good just because... AMBER FAITH HUN Im not trying to prove a point, ... I just want to get it out of my system, and I think I have the o... ANGEL CORDERO, JR. No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqua... MITCH ALBOM dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo... KURT COBAIN On my first day of Jr. High I was in Geography class, and the teacher asked us if anybody knew the n... JESSICA SIMPSON Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi... C. JOYBELL C. I turn over and lie flat on my back,staring at the ceiling. When she slept beside me, I slept well. ... E.L. JAMES I am a really quiet person. 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I mean, I didn't... JOHN GREEN THE ARRANGEMENTS AT the green house had become slightly peculiar, for Roen had decided to take the h... KRISTIN CASHORE To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and... EMMA ROBERTS
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JOHN GREEN The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tighteni... JOHN GREEN Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see. JOHN GREEN You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. JOHN GREEN But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more tim... JOHN GREEN How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? JOHN GREEN AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed. 'So that's Sara,' I said. 'Yes.' 'She seems nice. JOHN GREEN The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm t... JOHN GREEN I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them. JOHN GREEN You can't just make me different and then leave JOHN GREEN She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY W... JOHN GREEN But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut... JOHN GREEN Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th... JOHN GREEN I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what. JOHN GREEN You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually. JOHN GREEN I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t... JOHN GREEN I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha... JOHN GREEN There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear... JOHN GREEN Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�... JOHN GREEN I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ... JOHN GREEN If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,... JOHN GREEN If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane. JOHN GREEN I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo... JOHN GREEN Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave. JOHN GREEN Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will JOHN GREEN