I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after... - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."

"I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you."

"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention."

"And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone."

"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."