“The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me, and then I just started muttering stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid over and over again until the so…”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“Success is like wrestling with a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”— Robert Strauss, goodreads.com