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bc3b273 Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that monotone beep rings from on high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas. John Green
a81b34a The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess. grief romanticizing-dead-people John Green
e575fc4 The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve. John Green
8edcde7 You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. plastic paper-town John Green
3f340c6 Augustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed John Green
8d32b49 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 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. love hazel-grace 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
50b2e9d I fear your faith has been mis- placed--but then, faith usually is. John Green
6d7a679 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 interrupting bastard. "I'm telling you," Isaac continued, "Augustus.. humour eulogy John Green
12dce6a the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. John Green
98f39b7 You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brilliant when it comes to dealing with other people's heartbreak. Tiny is like some gigantic sponge soaking up the pain of lost love everywhere he goes. 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
d3364c4 I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much. smoking John Green
cbee94e I go to seek a Great Perhaps. a John Green
fe0ad5e Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget. John Green
dac04f4 I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around. growing-up John Green
2cd04bf Je pense que j'taime 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
8ec2426 If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain. pain romance John Green
cea4204 The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children." John Green
cb69570 Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularit.. paper-town real popularity John Green
d6346db I thought at first she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her alot like that, like someone's meal. What was her - green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs - would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the future, and how they would heat their ho.. John Green
1018e7b I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile. John Green
6fc7b5d I just think if you don't the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I- truth John Green
ef4f519 It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations. death last-words John Green
a7e9ce8 Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells. John Green
51c3d3a The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. how-we-look mirrors show humans John Green
e809783 Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory. world wish John Green
0368247 I get that nothing lasts. But why do I have to miss everybody so much? John Green
0d3df5b Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children. hazel-grace-lancaster tfios the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
8230df2 You feeling scared?" "Kinda." "Of what?" "It's not like that. The sentence doesn't have, like, an object. I'm just scared." John Green
f32cbd5 And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him the world run out of glasses and he would just have to do without. fear missing lost-love sudden John Green
6abd30e Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled. the-fault-in-our-stars ya John Green
89c3b13 You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. relationships people John Green
eaf2df6 Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate." 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
eb290f9 You can fight with me," I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was asleep. As I drifted off, I heard the Colonel say, "I can't be mad at you, you harmless skinny bastard." John Green
9141db4 I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason. John Green
9cc7a6d You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water." bar-guide 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
2429562 So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. John Green
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