John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

Quotes

• “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattere...”
• “What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You k...”
• “I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it ...”
• “I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’r...”
• “And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smel...”
• “Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity...”
• “And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better...”
• “The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like lo...”
• “Sometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right, ...”
• “I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t t...”
• “He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot,"I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think...”
• “Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts ...”
• “The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of it...”
• “Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer....”
• “Augustus,"I said. "Really. You don't have to do this.""Sure I do,"he said. "I found my Wish.""God, you're the best,"I to...”
• “But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever...”
• “I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not speci...”
• “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattere...”
• “If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, y...”
• “Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them,"I said."Right, of course. But you keep the...”
• “Headline?"he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home,'"I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'"he said."'Lonely, ...”
• “But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, ...”
• “Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst,...”
• “I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Fun...”
• “That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life...”
• “I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around an...”
• “I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author w...”
• “Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler...”
• “The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... ...”
• “You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from ...”
• “I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woma...”
• “Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so...”
• “It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its kill...”
• “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find s...”
• “The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”
• “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
• “I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”
• “We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?”
• “You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.”
• “I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.”
• “I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
• “You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
• “Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
• “Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
• “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
• “You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”
• “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
• “You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
• “So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost”
• “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”