The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

When was the last good kiss you had?

She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

You live for pretentious metaphors.

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.