Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

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

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.