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

Decide what your truth is. Then live it.

If you don’t have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly.

Show me a man who mistakes patience for weakness and I’ll show you a fool.

If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.

If we were to do as well as we know, our salvation would be secure.

If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.