Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago.