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The Fault in Our Stars quotes
John Green
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“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
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“Pain is like fabric: the stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”
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“Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
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“Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget”
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
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“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.”
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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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“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
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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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“Dad always told me that you can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistants.”
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“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
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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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“the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”
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“Some infinities are larger than other infinities”
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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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“We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness.”
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“People always get used to beauty, though.”
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“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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“Do the thing you’re good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.”
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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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“You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”
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“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”
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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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“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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“I fear your faith has been misplaced—but then, faith usually is.”
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“The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.”
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“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.”
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“Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”
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“And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.”
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“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me”
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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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“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
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“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
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“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world.”
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“I would give up all the sick days I had left for a few healthy ones.”
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“even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.”
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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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“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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“I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up”
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“He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!”
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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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“there are books . . . which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
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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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“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.”
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“It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
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