As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

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

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution.

Love can be all things.But, Just never enough.

I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

It was, she had to admit, some kind of wonderful to be kissed so deliciously by the only mand who had dared play with her cat with the intention of winning.

The person you're most afraid to contradict is yourself.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.

Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.