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.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

He may be a malevolent sorcerer, but Tiny Cooper is his own goddamned man, and if he wants to be a gigantic skipper, then that's his right as a huge American.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.