You are a side effect, " Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

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 love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive.

Yo Mama’s so old, her memory is in black and white.

You can walk and still talk... but still there is a possibility you to die.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?

Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.