John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"There is no try. There is only do."

"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."

"He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace..."

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."

"Augustus,"I said. "Really. You don't have to do this.""Sure I do,"he said. "I found my Wish.""God, you're the best,"I told him."I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel,"he answered."

"Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal."

"But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves."

"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."

"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."

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

"So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost"

"Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate."

"The world is not a wish-granting factory."

"But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does."

"I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."

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

"The marks humans leave are too often scars."

"I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it."

"Headline?"he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home,'"I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'"he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'"I said."

"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."