Maybe ‘okay’ will be our ‘always

I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

What a slut time is. She screws everybody.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?

I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.