The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.