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""Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.""
"Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe. And for me, at least, that what's leads to a more fulfilling life."
"The Venn Diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle."
"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention."
"I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering."
"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox."
"She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl."
"And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person."
"Maybe all the strings inside him broke."
"There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.” “And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick. “Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."
"We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none."
"Books belong to their readers."
"This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are."
"So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with."
"Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave."
"There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze."
"But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail"
"Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive."
"We are greater than the sum of our parts."
"Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!"