Now, Hank, obviously you and I are living proof that sometimes a nerd meets another nerd and they fall in nerd-love. - John Green

The fundamental mistake I had always made—and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make—was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment—because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.