What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

You know what ambrosia tastes like? It tastes like all the things you can't eat on Weight Watchers. Cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, regular freaking ice cream instead of, like, ice cream that's made out of air and human hope.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.