We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.