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e4997e2 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." hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
c2dfc75 Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop. margo paper-towns John Green
d29cec3 She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lyin.. suffering philosophy labyrinth pudge John Green
c8eefc8 You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you. John Green
1549bfe Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause" loss sadness John Green
1c1072a The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. John Green
90cda5e I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost. John Green
fc0c8c6 How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus said. 'Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.' 'So I heard,' Issac said, trying not to let it get to him. He fumbled toward Gus's hand and found only his thigh. 'I'm taken,' Gus said. John Green
2cc0d66 Because memories fall apart, too. And you're left with nothing. John Green
6b0a0c3 I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is 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. If you choose the strings, then you'r.. John Green
0de25c3 We just did an awesome job of not dying. good-job surviving John Green
4731d44 Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them up close... John Green
2c13710 Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love." John Green
1705bba 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. relationships the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
ac0bcf7 We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. John Green
e869775 A paper town for a paper girl. John Green
6dd4387 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. John Green
e631b42 I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. fathers sons pride John Green
aad69d1 According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul. But this is the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying, poisoned by an infected G-tube that kept him alive, but not alive enough. I wiped his chin and g.. 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
c720412 True terror isn't being scared; it's not having a choice on the matter. turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
bef1e6e I have an Augustus Waters fetish. John Green
eb31e28 Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES FAG, which, aside from being a grammatical nightmare, is absolutely ridiculous. So I'm changing it to 'God Hates Baguettes.' It's tough to disagree with that. Everybody hates baguettes. religion humor homophobia picnic-tables homosexuality John Green
d801d3e There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis. This was not one of those times. John Green
f709a67 The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. blending-in John Green
dce7142 Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. John Green
4503666 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?" love truth the-fault-in-our-stars promises John Green
0f70aea Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots. 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
11cb078 Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth. 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
9e0a506 Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children. John Green
58a26be If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything. life greater-good John Green
33f51d7 She loved mysteries so much, that she became one. looking-for-alaska John Green
734853d 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.' 'Als.. disney-world hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
208ae7a There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that's one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards. humor life 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 Haze.. john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
533fdd8 Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used. John Green
66704d2 But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get." I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't .. John Green
1ebb8ca The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company. John Green
eec6566 I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should. love-story die John Green
0405034 So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost poetry John Green
584bd0a I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done. John Green
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