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967ff89	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.	inspirational mourn pray remember	John Green
9e393b9	I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.		John Green
4e3ad91	How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.		John Green
e9940c2	The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.		John Green
0ff9741	Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.		John Green
a35124d	Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.	death halter henrik-isben miles pudge green john last-words looking dying	John Green
dbe9451	My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there's no one I'd rather have..." I started crying. "Okay, how..	best-book-ever hazel-grace	John Green
9486d6c	But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.		John Green
503eaa2	His hand reached for her boob over her shirt and pawed at it, his palm still while his fingers moved around. I wondered if that felt good. Didn't seem like it would, but I decided to forgive Isaac on the grounds that he was going blind. The senses must feast while there is yet hunger and whatever. "I think he's hurting her boob," I said. "Yes, it's difficult to ascertain whether he is trying to arouse her or perform a breast exam."		John Green
eb777c7	Even if it's a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward --ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter --maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.		John Green
f8399b8	I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.		John Green
f1c3562	Like all sick children," he answered dispassionately, "you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it."		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
96c53c9	He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "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."	funny hazel-grace-lancaster	John Green
1b19fa4	In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)"		John Green
ef26878	I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.	augustus-waters souls	John Green
acbd856	Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder	humor	John Green
c64dd93	Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.		John Green
920a2fa	It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...	pain sorrow sorrowful cancer sad	John Green
be64842	I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice."	humor	John Green
54bf997	Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.		John Green
d527352	You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.		John Green
8c4e654	Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.		John Green
4f45683	I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said."		John Green
8792d4f	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 ro..	dogs death love fire-hydrant eulogy making-a-difference hurt legacy disease survival choices scars beautiful dying	John Green
103dc87	There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.		John Green
fecb189	You smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die.		John Green
57058d6	People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember.	memory	John Green
e248629	I just want you to be happy. If that's with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.	want	John Green
56ab8a6	Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.		John Green
b9a6c3d	It always seemed ridiculous to me that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.		John Green
0a8cf8c	I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.	expectations	John Green
af7c36c	it is the nature of stars to cross		John Green
3e92225	She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.		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
bb8f740	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.	death	John Green
f2d5e01	Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.		John Green
b9c73ba	standing in line is a form of oppression		John Green
6ef507b	Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else		John Green
61a340d	I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.		John Green
636d119	It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes -Miles "Pudge"		John Green
9089378	So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.		John Green
1ff471f	All hurt is brain hurt.		John Green
ba8592e	Life is a series of choices between wonders.		John Green

967ff89

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.

inspirational mourn pray remember

John Green

9e393b9

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.

John Green

4e3ad91

How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.

John Green

e9940c2

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

John Green

0ff9741

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

John Green

a35124d

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

death halter henrik-isben miles pudge green john last-words looking dying

John Green

dbe9451

My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there's no one I'd rather have..." I started crying. "Okay, how..

best-book-ever hazel-grace

John Green

9486d6c

But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

John Green

503eaa2

His hand reached for her boob over her shirt and pawed at it, his palm still while his fingers moved around. I wondered if that felt good. Didn't seem like it would, but I decided to forgive Isaac on the grounds that he was going blind. The senses must feast while there is yet hunger and whatever. "I think he's hurting her boob," I said. "Yes, it's difficult to ascertain whether he is trying to arouse her or perform a breast exam."

John Green

eb777c7

Even if it's a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward --ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter --maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.

John Green

f8399b8

I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.

John Green

f1c3562

Like all sick children," he answered dispassionately, "you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it."

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

96c53c9

He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "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."

funny hazel-grace-lancaster

John Green

1b19fa4

In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)"

John Green

ef26878

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

augustus-waters souls

John Green

acbd856

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

humor

John Green

c64dd93

Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.

John Green

920a2fa

It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

pain sorrow sorrowful cancer sad

John Green

be64842

I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice."

humor

John Green

54bf997

Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.

John Green

d527352

You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

John Green

8c4e654

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

John Green

4f45683

I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said."

John Green

8792d4f

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 ro..

dogs death love fire-hydrant eulogy making-a-difference hurt legacy disease survival choices scars beautiful dying

John Green

103dc87

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

John Green

fecb189

You smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die.

John Green

57058d6

People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember.

memory

John Green

e248629

I just want you to be happy. If that's with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

want

John Green

56ab8a6

Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

John Green

b9a6c3d

It always seemed ridiculous to me that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

John Green

0a8cf8c

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

expectations

John Green

af7c36c

it is the nature of stars to cross

John Green

3e92225

She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.

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

bb8f740

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.

death

John Green

f2d5e01

Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.