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

And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

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

I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?