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

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

I expertly angled my raison bran to accomodate the g-forces.

It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.