John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Why are you looking at me like that"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence."
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"Why are you looking at me like that"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?"
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace..."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. I do, Augustus. I do."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break when you need them, and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Watersβs death was Augustus Waters."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters"
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn't slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"sametimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them"
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Who am I to say that these things might nit be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?"
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Thanks for not trying to see me when I looked like hell.ββTo be fair, you still look pretty bad."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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