Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

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.

I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.

The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.

We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.

This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.

A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.