There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.

The worse the haircut, the better the man.

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.

She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.