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The Fault in Our Stars QUOTES

The Fault in Our Stars QUOTES

1 " As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

2 " I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

3 " 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 the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

4 " 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

5 " 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 , The Fault in Our Stars

6 " Love is keeping the promise anyway. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

7 " 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

8 " Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'... "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

9 " Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

10 " There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. 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. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

11 " Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

12 " One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

13 " You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

14 " There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.”

“And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick.

“Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

15 " 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. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

16 " 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. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

17 " Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”
Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.”
Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.”
Mom: “Television is a passivity.”
Me: “Ugh, Mom, please.”
Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”
Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.”
Mom: “You don’t take pot, for starters.”
Me: “See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”
Mom: “You’re going to Support Group.”
Me: “UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”
Mom: “Hazel, you deserve a life. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

18 " I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

19 " The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

20 " I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.) "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars