John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"Hey,' he said, touching my waist. 'Hey. It's okay.' I nodded and wiped my face with the back of my hand. 'He sucks.' I nodded again. 'I'll write you an epilogue,' Gus said. That made me cry harder. 'I will,' he said. 'I will. Better than any sh*t that drunk could write. His brain is Swiss cheese. He doesn't even remember writing the book. I can write ten times the story that guy can. There will be blood and guts and sacrifice. An Imperial Affliction meets The Prince of Dawn. You'll love it.' I kept nodding, faking a smile, and then he hugged me, his strong arms pulling me into his muscular chest, and I sogged up his polo shirt a little but then recovered enough to speak."

"Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence."

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities"- The Fault in our Stars"

"We told Mom about the Anne Frank House, leaving out the kissing."Did you go back to chez Van Houten afterward" Mom asked. Augustus didn't even give me time to blush."Nah, we just hung out at a café. Hazel amused me with some Venn diagram humor."He glanced at me. God, he was sexy."

"We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too."

"I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis."

"Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died."

"This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have'Some war,' he said dismissively. 'What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Graze, with a predetermined winner."

"Worry is yet another side effect of dying."

"How fun it would be to bounce on the back of Lidewij Vliegenthart’s bike down the brick streets, her curly red hair blowing into my face, the smell of the canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer, saying their r’s and g’s in a way I’d never learn. I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I’d never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can’t make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn’t see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."

"I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor."

"You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."

"I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that’s hard to look at.."

"Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."

"The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it's just another good day."

"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."

"There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer."

"That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence"

"Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children."

"I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles."