John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest."
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"Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"You gave me a forever within the numbered days and I'm grateful."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It's disheartening. Like, cancer is in the growth business, right? The taking-people-over business. But surely you haven't let it succeed prematurely."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner"
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Maybe I was supposed to hate Caroline Mathers or something because she’d been with Augustus, but I didn’t. I couldn’t see her very clearly amid all the tributes, but there didn’t seem to be much to hate. She seemed to be mostly a professional sick person, like me, which made me worry that when I died they’d have nothing to say about me except that I fought heroically, as if the only thing I’d ever done was Have Cancer."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and I would be together again. I already knew too many dead people. I knew that time would now pass for me differently then it would for him- that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa," he said."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"A nonhot boy stares at you and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy...well."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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