My thoughts are stars i cannot fathom into constellations

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.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.

Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

I think President Obama's been terrific.

I did live in Paris for three years and I prefer New York.

There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines