All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

Love is just a shout in the void.

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

No headboards were broken.

Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.