Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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

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

"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."

"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 tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin."