"Oh, I wouldn't mind Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to my heart broken by you."
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the
simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know
that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is
inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day
when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will
swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will
come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that
anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will
be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you.
Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered
will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that
time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if
we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There
was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be
time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I
encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
"But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my
house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the
scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without my best friend."
