sametimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them

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.

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.

People don't buy drills they buy holes