John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay"I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while."
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"I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay"I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"What's that"The laundry basket"No, next to it."I don't see anything next to it."It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"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."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I glanced again. He was still watching me. 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, a form of assault. But a hot boy... well."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be mt flowers."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won’t be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don’t live alife in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won’t get either alife or a death that means anything."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you"
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her"
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I am in love with you, and I am not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"If you dont' live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"NOTHING HAS EVER LOOKED LIKE THAT EVER IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY,” he said. His enthusiasm was adorable. I couldn’t resist leaning over to kiss him on the cheek.“Just so you know, I’m right here,” Mom said. “Sitting next to you. Your mother. Who held your hand as you took your first infantile steps.”“It’s friendly,” I reminded her, turning to kiss her on the cheek.“Didn’t feel too friendly,” Gus mumbled just loud enough for me to hear. When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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