— looking for alaska

• «You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.»
• «Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.»
• «When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.»
• «If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.»
• «People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.»
• «There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.»
• «What you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person.»

— the fault in our stars

• «As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once»
• «My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations»
• «Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.»
• «Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.»
• «The marks humans leave are too often scars.»
• «What a slut time is. She screws everybody.»
• «Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.»