It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

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.

Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)

Because you're my friend, wingnut.

i wanted more time so we could fall in love.