"He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot,"I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish,"he answered, still kissing me. I laughed."I have an Augustus Waters fetish,"I explained."
"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."
"So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost"
"Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."
"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."