I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

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.

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

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

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.

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

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.

You cannot lose games in the NFL, and still win

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.