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."
"Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."
"There is no try. There is only do."
"Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."
"Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin."
"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention."