“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

“"I'm in love with you," he said quietly.”

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.”

“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

“He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, make you think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn't going to quote poetry or think about you every moment, but he will give you a part of himself that he knows you could break. Don't hurt him, don't change him, and don't expect more than he can give. Don't analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he's not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don't exist, but there's always one guy who is perfect for you.”

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”

“You can talk with someone for years, every day, and still it won't mean as much as sitting silently with them and feeling them with your heart, like you've known them forever. Connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all those who live without love.”

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

“We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love, true love.”

“You should date a girl who reads.”

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing.”

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”

“To the people who look at the stars and wish.”

“So I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”

“We came to see Jace. Is he alright?”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). I am never without it (anywhere I go, you go, my dear).”

“Sometimes people are beautiful.”

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.”

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together, knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”