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John Green Quotes - Page 51

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All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

Inspirational, Basketball, Augustus

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

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.

Romantic, Distance, Effort

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.74, Penguin

I have an Augustus Waters fetish.

Water, Augustus, Fetish

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.207, Penguin

Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.

Real, War, Cancer

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?

Believe, Thinking, Want

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.223, Penguin

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

Cancer, Kids, World

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.222, Penguin

His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life

Real, Guy, Kind

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.19, Penguin

That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

Cancer, People, Disease

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.99, Penguin UK

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.

Real, Doctors, People

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon the observer of the universe.

Cutting, Boys, Blue

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.160, Penguin UK

I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.

Believe, Done, Prom

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.11, A&C Black

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

Book, Way, Death And Dying

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.67, Penguin

I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

Wish, Scar, Left

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.

Gus, Gestures, Excited

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.101, Penguin UK

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.

Dawn, Fields, Moral

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.82, Penguin

The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.

Eye, Sun, Losing

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.168, Penguin

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

Gold, Dawn, Frost

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.

Real, Ocean, Men

No headboards were broken.

Broken

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.118, Penguin

One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

Truth, Memories, Children

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

Jesus, Hipster, Heart

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.181, Penguin UK

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

Children, Sick, Want

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.110, Penguin

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.

New York, Numbers, Misery

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.832, Penguin

She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.

Men, Earth, Old Man

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.199, Penguin UK

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

Romantic, Stars, Keeping Promises

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.42, Penguin

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