How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

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?!

Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish," he answered, still kissing me. I laughed. "I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.