The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.

Waffles are just awesome bread.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you