You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but... - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."
"But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does."
"Headline?"he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home,'"I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'"he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'"I said."
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"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."
"I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die."