The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.

Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

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?!

She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.' 'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said. 'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one.