Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.

I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.

I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.

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?!

Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down