"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."
"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."
"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."
"I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should."
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"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."