I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't.

It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave