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

Llega un momento en el que nos damos cuenta que nuestros padres no se pueden salvar ellos mismos ni salvarnos a nosotros, que a todos los que navegan por el tiempo, tarde o temprano, la...

Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54)

I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.

Just be happy, and if you can’t be happy, do things that make you happy or do nothing with the people that make you happy.

It’s easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent...

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over as Patrick acknowledged for the thousandth time...

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

Llega un momento en que nos damos cuenta de que nuestros padres no se pueden salvar a ellos mismos ni salvarnos a nosotros,que a todos los que navegan por el tiempo,tarde o temprano,la corriente los...

We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth

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...

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.

As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:”Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it.””What’s that?” Anna asked.”Water,” the Dutchman said. “Well,...

I’m just very, very fond of you.

No you don’t”, she answers, and she is right. She can see it in my face- I understand now that I can’t be her and she can’t be me. Maybe Whitman had a gift I...

Las cosas nunca suceden como yo las imagino.

I would believe; you would believe; he or she would believe.

AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!’ he screamed.’So that’s Sara,’ I said.’Yes.”She seems nice.

She’d obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think...

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,’ Augustus interrupted. ‘Please to be eating your sandwich and...

I have an Augustus Waters fetish,” I explained.

Me olvidarán, pero pero las historias persistirán. Y por eso todos importamos quizá menos que muchos, pero siempre más que nadie

The pleasure isn’t in doing the thing; the pleasure is in planning it.

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it...

We don’t suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

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

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

She wasn’t a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally – I mean, you don’t want your cancer surgeon to walk into the examination room and be like, “Guy walks into a bar. Bartender says,...

Sería un honor tener el corazón roto por ti, Hazel Grace.

… Their sneak-out was over. But by then it was too late. In his mind, Katherine I was already becoming Katherine XIX. She would soon retake the throne that, all along, had rightfully been hers.

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...

And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

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

I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts/

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...

Oh my God. I’ve seen him at parties. The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you’re interested in him. But, oh sweet holy Lord, I would ride...

The problem with chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to the point where nothing is real.

All writing is rewriting.

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps. That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

Sin dolor, no podriamos conocer la alegria

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to...

Well yeah, but now I’m highly motivated to get you out.” This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you...

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.