More quotes by John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"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."
"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."
"You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail."
"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."
"It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."