It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had... - John Green, Looking for Alaska

"It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things."

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."

"What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous."

"That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them."

"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken."