A desert blessing, an ocean curse.

What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .

But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.

It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus,” and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come.

She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

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

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.