John Green - The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

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Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

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Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

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Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.

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But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

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Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

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I hadn't read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

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The problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

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I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said.

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Hazel Grace, he said. Hi, I said. How are you? Grand, he said. I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction. (He said in re. He really did. That boy.)

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Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

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The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

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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.

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I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at..

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You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. 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." "You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.

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I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain....

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The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

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I spent your Wish on that doucheface, I said into his chest. Hazel Grace. No. I will grant you that you did spend my one and only Wish, but you did not spend it on him. You spent it on us.

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Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.

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I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

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He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn't your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes, but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.

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He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

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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,...

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How about I call you when I finish this? But you don't even have my phone number, he said. I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book. He broke out into that goofy smile. A nd you say we don't know each other.

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I've stopped thinking about it. I don't have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

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Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.

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The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

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I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

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Are you currently at your house?" he asked. "Um, no," I said. "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house.

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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.

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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's that?" Anna asked. "Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.

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