John Green, The Fault in Our Stars Quotes

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

"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."

"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."

"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."

"What a slut time is. She screws everybody."

"What a slut time is. She screws everybody."

"The marks humans leave are too often scars."

"The marks humans leave are too often scars."

"Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."

"Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them,"I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway."

"Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them,"I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway."

"The world is not a wish-granting factory."

"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."

"Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal."

"Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always"

"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?"

"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?"

"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?"

"That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence"

"You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail."

"You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."

"I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?"

"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"

"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"

"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"