I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend. - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well."

"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."

"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."

"He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace..."

"I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should."