If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.
I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.
I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being amazed that only a few minutes had passed since I...
I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks....
I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens thr...
How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?
How can you read and talk at the same time? I asked.Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.
Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace...
Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis.
But then in middle school science, Mr. Martinez asked who among us had ever fantasized about living in the clouds, and everyone raised their hand. Then Mr. Martinez told us that up in the clouds the w...
But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the sce...
All salvation is temporary, Augustus shot back. I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel...
Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.
I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time.
I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy,...
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.