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“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.'
'Seventeen,' Gus corrected.
'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.
'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. 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.
'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.'
I was kind of crying by then.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
'Seventeen,' Gus corrected.
'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.
'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. 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.
'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.'
I was kind of crying by then.”
― The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn鈥檛 the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska

“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?”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“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. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said.
'It can be sort of blinding,' he said.
'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said.
'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?'
'You cannot.'
'It is my burden, this beautiful face.'
'Not to mention your body.'
'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said.
'It can be sort of blinding,' he said.
'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said.
'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?'
'You cannot.'
'It is my burden, this beautiful face.'
'Not to mention your body.'
'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.”
― The Fault in Our Stars

“Headline?" he asked.
"'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said.
"'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said.
"'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
"'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said.
"'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said.
"'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.”
― The Fault in Our Stars

“That didn鈥檛 happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska

“I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn鈥檛 tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You鈥檙e a woman. Now die.)”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“We鈥檙e as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we鈥檙e not likely to do either.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines

“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down

“I鈥檓 in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we鈥檙e 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鈥檒l ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down

“That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns

“Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“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. 鈥淢y name is Augustus Waters,鈥� he said. 鈥淚鈥檓 seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I鈥檓 just here today at Isaac鈥檚 request.鈥�
鈥淎nd how are you feeling?鈥� asked Patrick.
鈥淥h, I鈥檓 grand.鈥� Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. 鈥淚鈥檓 on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
鈥淎nd how are you feeling?鈥� asked Patrick.
鈥淥h, I鈥檓 grand.鈥� Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. 鈥淚鈥檓 on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”
― The Fault in Our Stars

“True terror isn鈥檛 being scared; it鈥檚 not having a choice on the matter.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down

“All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it."
"What鈥檚 that?" Anna asked.
"Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it."
"What鈥檚 that?" Anna asked.
"Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.”
― The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
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