"What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever."
— By The Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead — Julie Anne Peters
"She was powerless to control me. She still is. I was trapped, Mom. Why don’t you get that?"
— By The Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead — Julie Anne Peters
"The door shut and instantly all the air in the car compressed. I couldn’t breathe. Minutes ticked by. The walls closed in. She left me there, alone, and I knew, I just knew she was never coming back for me. My bladder ballooned like I’d been guzzling water for weeks, and even when I crossed my legs and scrunched up tight, I couldn’t hold it."
— By The Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead — Julie Anne Peters
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
— The Fault in Our Stars — John Green
"It was fourth grade, but it was still big a deal. I mean, when are things supposed to start mattering? Now, and now, and now."
— Palo Alto — James Franco
"Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing A sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile."
— The Fault in Our Stars — John Green
"Waking up was horrible, because for a disoriented moment I felt like everything was fine, and then it crushed me anew."
— The Fault in Our Stars — John Green
"We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can’t stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it’s silly and useless — epically useless in my current state — but I am an animal like any other."
— The Fault in Our Stars — John Green
"The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, “They’ll remember me now”, but (a) they don’t remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion."
— The Fault in Our Stars — John Green
"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."
— The Fault in Our Stars — John Green
