No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

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?!

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, "IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS.

Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.