Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.

I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.