Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.
Although love is communicated in a number of ways,our words often reflect the condition of our heart.
For everyone has a destiny. A destiny not found in the pages of a hefty book; a destiny not found in heaven or in hell. No, our destinies are embedded in our bodies.
Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.
the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...
I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.
I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.
You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.
I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster
What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.
I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that’s hard to look at..
You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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.
Some tourist think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a ciry of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.
The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
