John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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

"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."

"I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"What a slut time is. She screws everybody."

"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."

"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."

"Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always"

"That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence"

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

"You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."

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

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

"You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail."

"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?"

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