The silence broke:”Sometimes I liked it”, I said “Sometimes I liked it that she was dead.””You mean it felt good?””No. I don’t know. It felt … pure.

Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for...

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was...

…everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, “This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.”Right, it’s primarily his hotness,’ I said.’It can be sort of blinding,’ he said.’It actually did blind our friend Isaac,’ I said.’Terrible tragedy,...

If people could see me the way I see myself – if they could live in my memories – would anyone love me?

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn’t want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

Leaving feels too good, once you leave.

We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth

I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb.

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

Everything’s uglier up close.Not you.

You gave me forever within the numbered days.

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best...

But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take...

He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. “You’re so hot,” I said, my hand still on his leg. “I’m starting to think you have an amputee fetish,” he answered, still kissing me. I...

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

… that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done...

I’ve been looking for a way to tell my father that I actually sort of hate basketball, and I think we’ve found it.

…there are books…which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. – Hazel Grace Lancaster

But then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo’s anger at being found, or...

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.

Colin “I’m just–I’m just a failure. what if this is it? —–andI never do anything significant and I’m just a complete waste?”Hassan sat up, with his hands on his knees. “See, this is why you...

if you don’t believe,nothing ever happens at all.

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don’t touch me—oh, god!

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does that imply a physical location of a heaven containing physical basketballs? Who makes the basketballs in question? Are...

What’s the meaning of life? Other people.

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and your hear all the terrible and woderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you...

I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She...

And even though it was ridiculously childish, in the end I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don’t think that word should ever be used by anyone, let...

What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart...

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died.

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don’t bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

Augustus,” I said. “Really. You don’t have to do this.””Sure I do,” he said. “I found my Wish.””God, you’re the best,” I told him.”I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your...

Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we...

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly...

Well,” Ben went on,”someone should just tell her to come on home, because she can find the world’s largest balls right here in Orlando, Florida. They’re located in a special display case known as ‘my...