"Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)"
"You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."
"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting."
"When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself."
"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you."
"I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come."