Hazel GRACE!” he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” “Also Epcot Center,” I mumbled. “Oh, my God,” Augustus said. “I can’t believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes.

And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.