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3e73e0c Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.' 'Seventeen,' Gus corrected. 'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard. 'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness. 'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.' I was kind of crying by then. tfios the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
c2a735f I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary? tfios 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
fe80250 "Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?" Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table." Gus: "Nicely phrased." Gus's father: "Our children are weird." My dad: "Nicely phrased." tfios 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
6458577 It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. infinity infinities tfios John Green
7c5f98f I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. tfios hazel John Green
530c749 "As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it." "What's that?" Anna asked. "Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time." tfios the-fault-in-our-stars 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
76566ea the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world indianapolis cancer hazel-grace tfios the-fault-in-our-stars 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
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
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
41d282c A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn'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 are going to live a good long life filled with great and terrible moments you cannot even imagine yet! tfios the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
0a2892c "He's not that smart." "She's right," Augustus says. "It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations." "Right, it's primarily his hotness." "It can be sort of blinding," he said. "It actually did blind our friend Isaac." "Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?" "You cannot." "It is my burden, this beautiful face." "Not to mention your body." "Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away," he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank." funny tfios 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
0d3df5b Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children. hazel-grace-lancaster tfios 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
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
a87c3b0 Pain demands to be felt. tfios John Green
309b160 Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over as Patrick acknowledged for the thousandth time his ball-lessness etc. and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. tfios the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
0ac5f04 "I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained." -- fetishes john-green tfios John Green
7b2c350 Cover me!' Augustus said as he jumped out from behind the wall and raced toward the school. Isaac fumbled for his controller and then started firing while the bullets rained down on Augustus, who was shot once and then twice but still ran, Augustus shouting,'YOU CAN'T KILL MAX MAYHEM!' and with a final flurry of button combinations, he dove onto the grenade, which detonated beneath him. His dismembered body exploded like a geyser and the screen went red. A throaty voice said, 'MISSION FAILURE,' but Augustus seemed to think otherwise as he smiled at his remnants on the screen. He reached into his pocket, pulled out a cigarette, and shoved it between his teeth. 'Saved the kids' he said. 'Temporarily' I pointed out. 'All salvation is temporary' Augustus shot back. 'I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing. funny tfios John Green
1c23e53 so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does. support-group hazel-grace-lancaster tfios oblivion John Green
a564872 "I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish" he answered, still kissing me. I laughed. "I have an Augustus Waters fetish" I explained." john-gree hazel-grace tfios John Green
7b2e628 "I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said. "Don't call my boobs funny," I answered." jogn-green tfios John Green
bebe6b5 She was loved deeply, but not widely tfios John Green
e3d8ef3 Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. live love tfios-love waters tfios John Green
2fce476 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. romance love john-green-quotes tfios 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
188018f Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren. john-gree hazel-grace tfios John Green
a73f517 Between the three of us, we have five legs, four eyes & two & a half working pairs of lungs. hazel-grace-lancaster tfios 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
f99515d That's the thing about pain... it demands to be felt. tfios quotes John Green
94abd19 "Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table. Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown." poetry prufrock tfios hazel T.S. Eliot
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