John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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

"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."

"Love is keeping the promise anyway."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well."

"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."

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