John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention."

"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."

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."

"And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone."

"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."

"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

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

"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."

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

"If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."

"We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?"

"What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."

"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?"