“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.”
―
Jesse Andrews,
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“When you convert a good book to a film. stupid things happen” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“It's like when a kitten tries to bite something to death. The kitten clearly has the cold-blooded murderous instinct of a predator, but at the same time, it's this cute little kitten, and all you want to do is stuff it in a shoebox and shoot a video of it for grandmas to watch on YouTube.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you, and then when it does, that's when you feel like shit.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“The best ideas are always the simplest.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“This book probably makes it seem like I hate myself and everything I do. But that's not totally true. I mostly just hate every person I've ever been. I'm actually fine with myself right now.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“Girls like good-looking guys, and I am not very good-looking. In fact, I sort of look like a pudding” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“I entered Excessive Modesty Mode. Nothing is stupider and more ineffective than Excessive Modesty Mode. It is a mode in which you show that you’re modest by arguing with someone who is trying to compliment you. Essentially, you are going out of your way to try to convince someone that you’re a jerk.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“The most beautiful thing about you is that you’re not a sock puppet.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“let’s face it: Most girls are annoying. I mean, most humans are annoying, so it’s not specific to girls. Also, I don’t really mean “annoying.” I guess I mean that most humans like to try to fuck up your plans.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“Look, I was an idiot. I didn't want people to think that I had a crush, so I decided to give everyone the impression that I truly, honestly hated Madison Harter. For no reason. Just thinking about this makes me want to punch myself in the eyeball.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“Usually it's when your guard is down that you find yourself saying the most dick sentences of your life.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“We used to be pretty good friends, but fourteen-year-old girls are psychotic.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“I might accidentally become like a hermit or a terrorist or something.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“Are you done eating that?" "What?""You shouldn't finish that, Dad's gonna want some.""The hell he will.""He will.""It's so nasty. Son, it's so nasty.""Then why are you finishing it?""Taking a bullet.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“And the point of Rachel the Film should really have been to express how awful and shitty that loss was, that she would have become a person with a long awesome life if she had been allowed to continue living, and that this was just a stupid meaningless loss, a motherfucking loss, a loss loss loss fucking loss, there was no fucking meaning to it, there was nothing that could come out of it...” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“I'm not really putting this very well. My point is this: This book contains precisely zero Important Life Lessons, or Little-Known Facts About Love, or sappy tear-jerking Moments When We Knew We Had Left Our Childhood Behind for Good, or whatever. And, unlike most books in which a girl gets cancer, there are definitely no sugary paradoxical single-sentence-paragraphs that you're supposed to think are deep because they're in italics. Do you know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about sentences like this:The cancer had taken her eyeballs, yet she saw the world with more clarity than ever before.Barf. Forget it. For me personally, things are in no way more meaningful because I got to know Rachel before she died. If anything, things are less meaningful. All right?” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you, and then when it does, that's when you feel like shit.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“When you convert a good book to a film. stupid things happen” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“It's like when a kitten tries to bite something to death. The kitten clearly has the cold-blooded murderous instinct of a predator, but at the same time, it's this cute little kitten, and all you want to do is stuff it in a shoebox and shoot a video of it for grandmas to watch on YouTube.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you, and then when it does, that's when you feel like shit.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“The best ideas are always the simplest.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“This book probably makes it seem like I hate myself and everything I do. But that's not totally true. I mostly just hate every person I've ever been. I'm actually fine with myself right now.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“Girls like good-looking guys, and I am not very good-looking. In fact, I sort of look like a pudding” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“I entered Excessive Modesty Mode. Nothing is stupider and more ineffective than Excessive Modesty Mode. It is a mode in which you show that you’re modest by arguing with someone who is trying to compliment you. Essentially, you are going out of your way to try to convince someone that you’re a jerk.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“The most beautiful thing about you is that you’re not a sock puppet.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“let’s face it: Most girls are annoying. I mean, most humans are annoying, so it’s not specific to girls. Also, I don’t really mean “annoying.” I guess I mean that most humans like to try to fuck up your plans.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“Look, I was an idiot. I didn't want people to think that I had a crush, so I decided to give everyone the impression that I truly, honestly hated Madison Harter. For no reason. Just thinking about this makes me want to punch myself in the eyeball.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“Usually it's when your guard is down that you find yourself saying the most dick sentences of your life.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“We used to be pretty good friends, but fourteen-year-old girls are psychotic.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“I might accidentally become like a hermit or a terrorist or something.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“Are you done eating that?" "What?""You shouldn't finish that, Dad's gonna want some.""The hell he will.""He will.""It's so nasty. Son, it's so nasty.""Then why are you finishing it?""Taking a bullet.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“And the point of Rachel the Film should really have been to express how awful and shitty that loss was, that she would have become a person with a long awesome life if she had been allowed to continue living, and that this was just a stupid meaningless loss, a motherfucking loss, a loss loss loss fucking loss, there was no fucking meaning to it, there was nothing that could come out of it...” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“I'm not really putting this very well. My point is this: This book contains precisely zero Important Life Lessons, or Little-Known Facts About Love, or sappy tear-jerking Moments When We Knew We Had Left Our Childhood Behind for Good, or whatever. And, unlike most books in which a girl gets cancer, there are definitely no sugary paradoxical single-sentence-paragraphs that you're supposed to think are deep because they're in italics. Do you know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about sentences like this:The cancer had taken her eyeballs, yet she saw the world with more clarity than ever before.Barf. Forget it. For me personally, things are in no way more meaningful because I got to know Rachel before she died. If anything, things are less meaningful. All right?” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you, and then when it does, that's when you feel like shit.” ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
