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1402b79 Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal reading john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
64515ca "Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said." humour humor pedophile pedophilia john-green tfios the-fault-in-our-stars internet John Green
fca6fe3 there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars stars john-green the-fault-in-our-stars human-nature John Green
f9d5480 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're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. love john-green hazel-grace tfios John Green
e9b21ec I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.) humor diagnosis john-green John Green
6eb351d If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me? colin-singleton john-green John Green
f194cc1 I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved. john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
ae54811 Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me. john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
b3cb07f "There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. "My name is Augustus Waters," he said. "I'm seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I'm just here today at Isaac's request." "And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick. "Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend." life john-green John Green
a4e7c1c You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you. life page-257 john-green turtles-all-the-way-down stories John Green
eaf683e There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. john-green tfios John Green
5003847 It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much. lindsey-lee-wells john-green John Green
435d344 I love you present tense. john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
1ef3133 "Van Houten, I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team. I don't want to ask you any favors, but if you have time - and from what I saw, you have plenty - I was wondering if you could write a eulogy for Hazel. I've got notes and everything, but if you could just make it into a coherent whole or whatever? Or even just tell me what I should say differently. Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star 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. (Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.) We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it's silly and useless - epically useless in my current state - but I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. 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 invented anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. After my PET scan lit up, I snuck into the ICU and saw her while she was unconscious. I just walked in behind a nurse with a badge and I got to sit next to her for like ten minutes before I got caught. I really thought she was going to die, too. It was brutal: the incessant mechanized haranguing of intensive care. She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and 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. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. A nurse guy came in and told me I had to leave, that visitors weren't allowed, and I asked if she was doing okay, and the guy said, "She's still taking on water." A desert blessing, an ocean curse. 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 know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers." john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
8d11086 i feel like my life is so scattered right now. like it's all these small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. but talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. like things could actually make sense. you completely unscatter me, and i appreciate that so much. will-grayson-will-grayson john-green David Levithan
25bdcec To be alive is to be missing. life page-281 missing john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
58db353 You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do. lindsey-lee-wells john-green John Green
8c48ab4 "He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked. - "Nothing" he said. - "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." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything." I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, "I`m not beau-" - "You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman." - "Never seen it." lover lovers silence life love real-life awkward flirt gorgeous looking-at-me natalie-portman turn-me-on vendetta john-green boy the-fault-in-our-stars real girl smile smiling beautiful hazel John Green The Fault in Our Stars
dac0c07 "Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force." -- humor prom john-green paper-towns high-school dating John Green
2939865 "Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force." humor prom john-green paper-towns high-school dating John Green
635dba8 Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'... kiss stars romantic romance inspire love inspirational fangirl lovely-quote okay thefaultinourstars cancer augustus-waters hazel-grace-lancaster john-green author green tfios the-fault-in-our-stars john fault always book John Green
3a495a2 In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments john-green turtles-all-the-way-down talk John Green
dcc4afc And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you. colin-singleton john-green John Green
0704e6d Te pasas toda la vida atorado en el laberinto, pensando en como vas a escapar de ahi un dia y que fabuloso sera; imaginar ese futuro te mantiene con vida, pero nunca te escapas. Solo utilizas el futuro para escapar del presente. frases john-green John Green
57b83a9 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? hate john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
70baf91 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. support-group john-green tfios John Green
187d386 The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it. humor john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
9d8e9ca there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. john-green the-fault-in-our-stars protagonist hazel John Green
5856ade Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while. john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
72edaad I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. beauty augustus-waters hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace tfios the-fault-in-our-stars beautiful hazel John Green
17bc301 If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl. let-it-snow john-green John Green
c3f2151 Every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really--just like touching someone else's body isn't the same as having someone else's body. pain john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
e1d3bc9 "Cuando los adultos dicen: "Los adolescentes piensan que son invencibles", con esa sonrisa manosa y estupida en sus rostros, no saben cuan en lo correcto estan. Necesitamos no perder nunca la esperanza, porque nunca nos podemos romper de manera irreparable. Pensamos que somos invencibles porque los somos. No podemos nacer y no podemos morir. Como toda la energia, solo podemos cambiar formas, tamanos y manifestaciones. Ellos olvidan eso al envejecer. Temen perder y fracasar. Pero esa parte nuestra, mas grande que la suma de nuestras partes, no puede nacer y no puede morir, asi que no puede fracasar." frases john-green John Green
c125cf9 People always get used to beauty, though. I haven't gotten used to you just yet beauty agustus-waters gus john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
349216b 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 John Green
16a868b Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves. page-244 john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
9c3634a There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities... I cannot tell you how grateful I am for our little infinity. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful. numbers john-green hazel-grace infinities tfios math John Green
ceb893e Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it. page-257 john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
dac33bd I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I've always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel. gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
2743f5a And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. page-33 page-34 part-1 margo-roth-spiegelman john-green paper-towns John Green
c47ed68 Creo que somos mas grandes que la suma de nuestras partes. frases john-green quotes John Green
126169d I go to seek a Great Perhaps. That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps. john-green looking-for-alaska seek John Green
4a703be I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. john-green internet John Green
86c353a "Love"I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus,"I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. 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're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you." "Augustus," I said again, not knowing what else to say. It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I couldn't say anything back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed, and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window." fiction love john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
3803879 "Nothing," I said. "I'm just..." I couldn't finish the sentence, didn't know how to. "I'm just very, very fond of you." gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
b104d84 Llega un momento en que nos damos cuenta de que nuestros padres no se pueden salvar a ellos mismos ni salvarnos a nosotros,que a todos los que navegan por el tiempo,tarde o temprano,la corriente los arrastra hacia el mar, y que, en pocas palabras, todos nos vamos.p frases john-green John Green
a0451e8 Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich john-green John Green
ba87028 I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... grenade john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
6f72328 I want more numbers that I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful. tifios hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace John Green
5ac3ee2 The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me. gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
c55d0b3 Sin dolor, no podriamos conocer la alegria bajo-la-misma-estrella the-fault-in-our-starts john-green tfios John Green
144d386 As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text. gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
5b6b52c Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube. gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
f354d7b pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! funny humor graduation laughable minivan new-car-reaction new-car-smell john-green paper-towns complaining reaction new laugh John Green
d8e6446 Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about. people augustus-waters hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace tfios the-fault-in-our-stars hazel dead John Green
1788662 Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on the side of the road, and I told myself I didn't have to get into that car, that my moment of choice was not whether to have the thought, but whether to be carried away by it. And then I got in the car. chapter-twenty-two page-251 john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
39f3cd6 10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5. katherine-carter katherine-xix john-green John Green
069e164 Augustus Waters was sitting on the front step as we pulled into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange tulips just beginning to bloom. gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
576b7e7 I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them. looking-for-alaska-quotes john-green-quotes john-green looking-for-alaska John Green
ead6c93 Las cosas nunca suceden como yo las imagino. john-green looking-for-alaska John Green
87221b0 This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
2cc16fe Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency. john-green John Green
5ee428c Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn't match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things. gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
0ac5f04 "I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained." -- fetishes john-green tfios John Green
d9dd210 ?Que mas? Ella es tan hermosa. No te cansas de verla. Nunca te preocupas si es mas inteligente que tu: sabes que lo es. Es graciosa sin querer serlo. La amo. Soy tan afortunado de amarla john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
7e81ef6 There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of it goes: 'Blown from the dark hill hither to my door/ Three flakes, then four/ Arrive, then many more.' You can count the first three flakes, and the fourth. Then language fails, and you have to settle in and try to survive the blizzard poem edna-st-vincent-millay snow-flake john-green turtles-all-the-way-down snow John Green
848c429 When was the last good kiss you had? gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
8123d05 "She didn't understand why it was happening," he said. "I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago." peter-van-houten hazel-grace-lancaster john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
74cc7e9 You'd think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does. The truth always disappoints. page-267 john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
54d414a But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. imagining john-green paper-towns John Green
a373f22 On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are. understanding-others john-green paper-towns John Green
876d4da And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could. john-green John Green
4a0c847 She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me. i-would-like-novels-better john-green looking-for-alaska novels smile John Green
1d223b8 You deserve a life. stars life dftba john-green fault hazel John Green
95515d6 All efforts to save me from you will fail, he said john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
fa307db We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle miracle universe john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
93effbd If I could just stay alive for a week, I'd know the unwritten secrets of Anna's mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy. gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
649b793 "Augustus Waters was the Mayor of the Secret City of Cancervania, and he is not replaceable", Isaac began. "Other people will be able to tell you funny stories about Gus, because he was a funny guy, but let me tell you a serious one: A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heartbroken and dind't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, 'I have wonderful news!' And I was like, 'I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now' and Gus said, 'This is wonderful news you want to hear' and I asked him, 'Fine, what is it?' and he said, 'You're going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!'" Isaac couldn't go on, or maybe that was all he had written." john-green tfios John Green
09036d1 Some infinites are longer than other infinites john-green tfios the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
46cf2d5 I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32) margo unfair john-green paper-towns John Green
d019f79 I just want to stay away from people and read books. john-green John Green
eb8d638 And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to. john-green John Green
771540f AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed. 'So that's Sara,' I said. 'Yes.' 'She seems nice. funny colonel miles john-green pudge looking-for-alaska John Green
712d6c4 "What?" I asked. "Nothing," he said. beauty quote john-green hazel John Green
f250e4c "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." existence john-green tfios the-fault-in-our-stars enjoy pleasures beautiful John Green
0e31abd A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it. young-adult john-green paper-towns novel John Green
644b052 I would always be like this, always have this within me. There was no beating it. I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me. My self and the disease were knotted together for life. john-green turtles-all-the-way-down mental-illness John Green
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