The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.