“Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.”

“Why do mortals think that suffering is a coin with which they can buy justice or salvation? ... life is a steal if you are a talented thief, and if you are not, then you may suffer all you please but if will buy you nothing but pain.”

“All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.”

“Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.”

“Reflection is and remains the hardest creditor in existence; hitherto it has cunningly bought up all the possible views of life, but it cannot buy the essentially religious and eternal view of life.”

“Emotional values are the most expensive ones which cannot be bought through materialistic values.”