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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.
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tfios
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John Green |
ee7f52c
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It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
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John Green |
c2a735f
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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?
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tfios
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John Green |
1402b79
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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
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reading
john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
c3be789
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It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said. '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.
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John Green |
39145ff
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But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
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John Green |
64515ca
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"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."
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humour
humor
pedophile
pedophilia
john-green
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
internet
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John Green |
fca6fe3
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there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
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stars
john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
human-nature
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John Green |
e126e92
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I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.
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love
bittersweet
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
sweet
sad
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John Green |
b1c2d86
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We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.
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John Green |
9c6d47a
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Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!
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augustus-waters
gus
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
1adb427
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Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.
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John Green |
f194cc1
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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.
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john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
84f6016
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That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
ae54811
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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.
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john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
e91c16a
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"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."
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John Green |
e4997e2
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"I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said."
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hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
1705bba
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And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.
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relationships
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
530c749
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"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."
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tfios
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John Green |
4503666
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"Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?"
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love
truth
the-fault-in-our-stars
promises
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John Green |
734853d
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Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish. 'No' I said. 'I used my Wish pre-Miracle.' 'What'd you do?' I sighed loudly. 'I was thirteen,' I said. 'Not Disney,' he said. I said nothing. 'You did not go to Disney World.' I said nothing. 'HAZEL GRACE!' he shouted. 'You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.' 'Also Epcot Center,' I mumbled. 'Oh, my God,' Augustus said. 'I can't believe I had a crush on a girl with such cliche wishes.
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disney-world
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the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
435d344
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I love you present tense.
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john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
1ef3133
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"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."
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john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
376c9c3
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"You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus."
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names
the-fault-in-our-stars
perception
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John Green |
ad091d3
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I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does that imply a physical location of a heaven containing physical basketballs? Who makes the basketballs in question? Are there less fortunate souls in heaven who work in a celestial basketball factory so that I can play? Or did an omnipotent God create the basketballs out of the vacuum of space? Is this heaven in some kind of unobservable universe where the laws of physics don't apply, and if so, why in the hell would I be playing basketball when I could be flying or reading or looking at beautiful people or something else I actually enjoy? It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than either the person I was or whatever I am now.
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John Green |
a90c272
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Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.
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the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
35bec00
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He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
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champage
the-fault-in-our-starsn
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
fa23f50
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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 am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. she walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. She 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. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
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heroism
the-fault-in-our-stars
depth
hero
intimacy
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John Green |
f5504d7
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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.
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depressing
peter-van-houten
the-fault-in-our-stars
sad
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John Green |
f0aa3da
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"Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly." --
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John Green |
a731986
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"Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly."
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the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
eb36565
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I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.
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John Green |
76566ea
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the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
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indianapolis
cancer
hazel-grace
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
3caa4fb
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You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!
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funny
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
500457d
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Girls think they're only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I'm going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him.
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the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
8c48ab4
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"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."
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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
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John Green The Fault in Our Stars |
3581121
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"Augustus: "I can still dominate your blind ass at Counterinsurgence," Isaac: "I'm pretty sure all asses are blind,"
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isaac
the-fault-in-our-stars
blind
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John Green |
635dba8
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Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
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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
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John Green |
5e7304c
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While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.
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the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
d826772
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I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
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John Green |
ca47c44
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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 (...) 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.
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John Green |
57b83a9
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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?
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hate
john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
dbe8842
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I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
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the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
9d8e9ca
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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.
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john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
protagonist
hazel
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John Green |
5856ade
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Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
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john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
187d386
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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.
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humor
john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
72edaad
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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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beauty
augustus-waters
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
beautiful
hazel
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John Green |
f092bfe
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
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shakespeare
the-fault-in-our-stars
william-shakespeare
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William Shakespeare |
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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!
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tfios
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John Green |
293f592
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"I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?" "And are there?" "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"
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the-fault-in-our-stars
ya
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John Green |
192b546
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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.
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death-and-dying
romantic
death
cowpox
smallpox
cancer
augustus-waters
waters
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
grace
beautiful
hazel
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John Green |
c125cf9
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People always get used to beauty, though. I haven't gotten used to you just yet
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beauty
agustus-waters
gus
john-green
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John Green |
85cd7bf
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"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."
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John Green |
349216b
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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
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john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
dac33bd
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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.
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gus
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
03084f5
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It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.
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pet-dragon
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
86c353a
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"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."
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fiction
love
john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
3803879
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"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."
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gus
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
6abd30e
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Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
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the-fault-in-our-stars
ya
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John Green |
ba87028
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I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...
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grenade
john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
5ac3ee2
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The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.
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gus
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
0d3df5b
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Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
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hazel-grace-lancaster
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
144d386
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As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.
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gus
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
5b6b52c
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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.
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gus
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
d8e6446
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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.
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people
augustus-waters
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
hazel
dead
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John Green |
14be5d9
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Seria un honor tener el corazon roto por ti, Hazel Grace.
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the-fault-in-our-stars
quotes
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John Green |
3813924
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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.
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hope
love
philosophy
heartbreaking
the-fault-in-our-stars
sad
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John Green |
069e164
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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.
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gus
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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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.
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This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore
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"Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that."
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?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
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Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn't match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.
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When was the last good kiss you had?
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"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."
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"He took a long drink, then grimaced. "I do not have a drinking problem," he announced, his voice needlessly loud. "I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink."
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Ma'am,' Augustus said, nodding toward her, 'your daughter's car has just been deservedly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.' After wavering for a moment, Monica's mom closed the door and disappeared.
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It's hard as hell to hold onto 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.
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And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
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All efforts to save me from you will fail, he said
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The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
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We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.
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If I could just stay alive for a week, I'd know the unwritten secrets of Anna's mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.
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John Green |
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Some infinites are longer than other infinites
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"You couldn't be more wrong", I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort" , Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting", I said. "You were a rare and fragile flower once. You remember." For a moment he said nothing. "You do know how to shut me up, Hazel Grace." "It's my privilege and responsibility," I answered."
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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."
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A Hazel e diferente. Ela caminha com leveza, velhote. Caminha com leveza sobre a Terra. A Hazel sabe a verdade: Somos tao capazes de magoar o universo como de o ajudar, e nao e provavel que facamos qualquer uma das coisas. As pessoas dirao que e triste que ela deixe uma cicatriz menor, que menos pessoas a recordarao, que ela foi profundamente amada mas de modo menos amplo. Mas nao e triste, Van Houten. E triunfante. E heroico. Nao sera isso o verdadeiro heroismo? Como dizem os medicos: Em primeiro lugar, nao facas mal. Seja como for, os verdadeiros herois nao sao as pessoas que fazem coisas; os verdadeiros herois sao as pessoas que reparam nas coisas, que prestam atencao (...) Que mais? Ela e tao bonita. Uma pessoa nao se cansa de olhar para ela. Nunca se preocupa se ela e mais esperta do que nos. Sabemos que e. E engracada sem nunca ser maldosa. Eu amo-a. Tenho tanta sorte por ama-la, Van Houten. Nao podemos escolher se somos ou nao magoados neste mundo, velhote, mas temos algo a dizer sobre quem nos magoa. Eu gosto das minhas escolhas. Espero que ela goste das dela. Gosto, Augustus. Gosto.
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