All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

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.

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

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.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.