YA Book Quotes

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"He shook his head, just looking at me.

'What?' I asked.

'Nothing.' he said.

'Why are you looking at me like that?'

Augustus half smiled. 'Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a whole ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasure of existence.' A brief awkward silence ensured. Augustus plowed through: 'I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything.'

I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in the way that was vaguely coughy and then said, 'I'm not beau-'

'You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman.'

'Never seen it.'

'Really?' he asked. 'Pixie-haired gorgeous girl dislikes authority and can't help but fall for a boy she knows is trouble. It's your autobiography, so far as I can tell.' His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on- not, like, in real life."

(~Augustus + Hazel)