John Green - The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

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What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.

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We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.

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So how's it going? Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU? Yeah, I said. Sucks, he said. I'm a lot better now, I said. I'm going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus. I know. I'm pretty well up-to-date on your life, because Gus never. Talks. About. Anything. Else.

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It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.

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I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

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But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.

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And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

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But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.)

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Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.

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There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.

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It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

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If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

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Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

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Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

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The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

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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.

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Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.

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The minister said, Let us pray, but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, We gotta fake pray, and bowed his head.

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But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera.

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The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

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I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

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I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

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That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

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

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People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.

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At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.

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Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

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It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.

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When you're as charming and physically attractive as myself, it's easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that's the trick.

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I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

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