there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."

"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."

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."

"I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?"

"Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate."