John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"Sometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?"

"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."

"The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess."

"The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it."

"Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."

"there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars"

"I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die."

"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."

"You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice."

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

"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."

"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."

"It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."

"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."

"Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."

"I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should."

"Sometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?"

"Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them,"I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway."