I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real lo... - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should."
"I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should."
"And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains."
"Love is keeping the promise anyway."
"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal"
"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."
"Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."