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“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I want to leave a mark.

But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.'
'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay?

"I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”
― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

“I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed but what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?"
I nodded into his shirt.
"Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said.
My old man. He always knew just what to say.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I can only hope,” Julie said, turning back to Gus, “they grow into the kind of thoughtful, intelligent young men you’ve become.”
I resisted the urge to audibly gag. “He’s not that smart,” I said to Julie.
“She’s right. 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.
“Okay, enough,” Gus’s dad said.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said.
'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral."
"Kaitlyn," I said.
"Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top?"
"Kaitlyn," I said.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars