“I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like the sound of Dutch people speaking Dutch. And now...I don't even get a battle. I don't get a fight.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.comTagged: After Life, Life After Death, Death, Understanding Death, Fear
“And then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Dealing With Sickness, Dealing With Death, Death, Illness
“And only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation. I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Dealing With Sickness, Dealing With Death, Death, Illness
“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a…”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Dealing With Sickness, Dealing With Death, Death, Illness
“You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Stories, Telling Stories, Sad Sexual Feels
“As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Love, Falling In Love, Kissing, Running Out Of Breath, breathing
“'Augustus Waters,' I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and 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 irre…”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Love, Anne Frank House, Anne Frank, Falling In Love, broken
“The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: humanity, Being human, Creation, Majesty Of Life, Being Alive
“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.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: fragility, Being Fragile, Death, Life After Death, Dealing With Death
“I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.comTagged: After Life, Life After Death, Death, Understanding Death, Fear
“That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. I don't believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.comTagged: After Life, Life After Death, Death, Understanding Death
“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.comTagged: Love, In love, Loving You
“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, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: fragility, Being Fragile, rare, Beautiful, Defining Beautiful
“That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: cancer, Courage, Endurance, Cancer Patients, Pain
“The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: cancer, Courage, Endurance, Cancer Patients, Pain
“I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me, and then I just started muttering stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid over and over again until the so…”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: cancer, Courage, Endurance, Cancer Patients, Pain
“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.”— John Green, Peter Van Houten, amazon.comTagged: Fault, Fault In Our Stars, humanity, Being human, Death
“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”— John Green, Peter Van Houten, amazon.comTagged: Fault, Fault In Our Stars, humanity, Being human, Death
“But there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.”— John Green, Peter Van Houten, amazon.comTagged: Fault, Fault In Our Stars, humanity, Being human
“People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: cancer, Courage, Endurance, Cancer Patients