1. What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
    — Peter Van Houten
     


  2. The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
    — Mr. Lancaster
     


  3. made me worry that when I died they’d have nothing to say about me except that I fought heroically, as if the only thing I’d ever done was Have Cancer.
    — Hazel Grace Lancaster
     


  4. I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties.
    — Hazel Grace Lancaster
     


  5. I could hear his crooked smile.
    — Hazel Grace Lancaster
     


  6. I lay down in the grass on the patio’s edge, looked up at Orion, the only constellation I could recognize.
    — Hazel Grace Lancaster
     


  7. Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
    — Isaac
     


  8. Maybe Okay will be our Always.
    — Augustus Waters
     


  9. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space.
    — Hazel Grace Lancaster
     


  10. Frankly, I’d read your grocery lists.
    — Hazel Grace Lancaster