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161 " I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary? "
― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars
162 " I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay? "
163 " Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence "
164 " 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 mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile. "
165 " You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful. "
166 " But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves. "
167 " I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend. "
168 " 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. "
169 " 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. "
170 " You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice. "
171 " 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. "
172 " I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! "
173 " We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. "
174 " The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters. "
175 " 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. "
176 " And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles. "
177 " The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes. "
178 " But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him. "
179 " Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could. "
180 " I've gotten really hot since you went blind. "