And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

Some wars," 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 is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

From the front Rdar announces, "Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?" "Whenever I eat a GoFast bar," Ben says, "I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes.