You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.