It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

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.

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

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.

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

..So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1 Corinthians 3:7

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

It's fun to be able to revisit a song and do something that doesn't really illustrate the song but works tangentially or runs parallel to the song in some way.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.

I don’t want to hurt or injure anyone. I just want to win. I have to win, so I do what I have to do.

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.