"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

"Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas."

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

Hazel GRACE!” he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” “Also Epcot Center,” I mumbled. “Oh, my God,” Augustus said. “I can’t believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes.