I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when...

Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

I’m telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he’d interrupt you at his own funeral.

the world wasn’t made for us, we were made for the world

Thank you for letting me hijack your wish’, I said.’Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa,” he said.

I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

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...

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

We told Mom about the Anne Frank House, leaving out the kissing.”Did you go back to chez Van Houten afterward?” Mom asked.Augustus didn’t even give me time to blush.”Nah, we just hung out at a...

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn’t going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:’I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to...

Augustus Waters was sitting on the front step as we pulled into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange tulips just beginning to bloom.

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we’re disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.

She’s still taking on water.” A desert blessing, an ocean curse.What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know...

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace…

This is it. I can’t even not smoke anymore

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid...

I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.

If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won’t get either...

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

Where is my chance to be somebody’s Peter Van Houten?’ He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. ‘I hate myself I hate myself...

Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

Maybe ‘Okay’ will be our ‘always’…

I have an Augustus Waters fetish,” I explained.

I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters

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 then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out,...

When was the last good kiss you had?

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

I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws....

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

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

I’m just very, very fond of you.

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...

Sin dolor, no podriamos conocer la alegria

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or...

I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too.

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

I can’t go to Amsterdam. One of my doctors thinks it’s a bad idea.”He was quiet for a second. “God,” he said. “I should’ve just paid for it myself. Should’ve just taken you straight from...

Algunas veces lees un libro, sientes un extraño afán evangelizador y estás convencido de que este desastrado mundo no se recuperará hasta que todos los seres humanos lo lean. Luego están los libros de los...

Maybe ‘okay’ will be our ‘always

I’ll fight it. I’ll fight it for you. Don’t you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I’m okay. I’ll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

Cover me!’ Augustus said as he jumped out from behind the wall and raced toward the school. Isaac fumbled for his controller and thenstarted firing while the bullets rained down on Augustus, who was shot...

—,Qué más? Ella es tan hermosa. No te cansas de verla. Nunca te preocupas si es más inteligente que tú: sabes que lo es. Es graciosa sin querer serlo. La amo. Soy tan afortunado de...

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.