A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn’t want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, ‘I...

That poem is so damned long. You’d think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

Hazel, do you enjoy it?’ I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus or his parents. ‘Most of the people are really nice,’ I finally said.

Cousin-screwing. It is not totally safe. It raises the risk of birth defects slightly. But I was reading in a book for history that there’s, like, a 99.9999 percent chance that at least one of...

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Ich hasste Sport. Ich hasste Sport, und ich hasste Sportler, und ich hasste Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, und ich hasste Leute, die Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, nicht hassten.

Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page,” Radar said. “For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don’t think it’s accurate to say, ‘Chuck Norris’s tears can...

What about the rest of your life?”She shrugged. “What about it?””Aren’t you worried about, like, forever?””Forever is composed of nows,” she says.

You can’t just make me different and then leave

Seriously, don’t even get me started on my hot bod. You don’t want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace’s breath away,” he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational...

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace…

Well, I’m a fair kisser.

It’s hard to believe in coincidence, but it’s even harder to believe in anything else.

She laughed. ”You seem pretty normal.””You’ve never seen Ben snort Sprite up his nose and then spit it out of his mouth,” I said.”I look like a demented carbonated fountain,” he deadpanned.

We left. We did not say: Don’t drive, You’re drunk. We did not say: We aren’t letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you....

what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in...

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?

I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that...

She loved mysteries so much, that she became one.

I want more numbers that I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our...

For the first time in a long time, I drive with no music. I’m not happy-not happy about Jane and Mr. Randall Water Polo Doucheface IV, not happy about Tiny abandoning me without so much...

I just want to stay away from people and read books.

There’s no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET...

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank’s name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without...

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was – you know, the central figure in the drama...

JP shouted, “TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!””Um,” I said.”We kissed,” the Duke said.”That’s kinda gay,” Keun said.”I AM A GIRL.””Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin,” Keun said.

This is unbearable … God. These books she’ll never read. Her Life’s Library.

I’m sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting....

Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

This one’s for Alaska Young!

true friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

There is no try,” I said. “There is only do.

I figured something out,” he said aloud. “The future is unpredictable.”Hassan said, “Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

Tiny is saying, “If you can’t trust your gut then what can you trust?” And I say, “You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to...

…and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.

Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. The smell of almonds,...

I fell in love with you the same way you fall asleep. Slowly then all at once,

A sequel that will exist just for us