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The Fault in Our Stars quotes
John Green
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“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.”
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The Fault in Our Stars
“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...”
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“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
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“the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.”
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“We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness.”
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“forever is an incorrect concept”
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“The world . . . is not a wish-granting factory”
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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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“Some infinities are larger than other infinities”
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“Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in...”
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“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”
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“even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.”
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“Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
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“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.”
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“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
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“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
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“Pain is like fabric: the stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”
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“People always get used to beauty, though.”
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“Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget”
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“there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
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“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.”
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“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?”
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“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world.”
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“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
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“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you”
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“And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, this would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.”
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“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
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“They don’t kill you unless you light them . . . And I’ve never lit one. 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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“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
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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.”
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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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“Do the thing you’re good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.”
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“It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”
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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
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“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.”
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“Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.”
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“I fear your faith has been misplaced—but then, faith usually is.”
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“I would give up all the sick days I had left for a few healthy ones.”
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“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.”
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“Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon”
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“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.”
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“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.”
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“My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”
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“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”
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“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. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
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“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.”
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“The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters’s death was Augustus Waters.”
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“But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”
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“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
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“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.”
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