Jeff Kenney

“Kind of hard to believe anyone could ever find that annoying,” Augustus said after a while. “People always get used to beauty, though.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Working an integral or performing a linear regression is something a computer can do quite effectively. Understanding whether the result makes sense—or deciding whether the method is the right one to use in the first place—requires a guiding human hand. When we teach mathematics we are supposed to be explaining how to be that guide. A math course that fails to do so is essentially training the student to be a very slow, buggy version of Microsoft Excel.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

“I couldn't be mad at him for even a moment, and only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“That’s the thing about pain,” Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. “It demands to be felt.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars