“What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.” — John Green Copy Share Image
depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Then I am a cancer-fighting machine,” I told him. “That you are, Hazel.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest. — John Green Copy Share Image
“I think my school friends wanted to help me through cancer, but they eventually found out that they couldn't. For one thing,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don't suppose you can forget about it and treat me like I'm not dying." I don't think you're dying," I said.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is a side effect of cancer," I told him. "Nah, nostalgia is a side effect of dying," he answered.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of… — John Green Copy Share Image
Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of. — John Green Copy Share Image
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect… — John Green Copy Share Image
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people. — John Green Copy Share Image
“We had a big Cancer Team Meeting a couple days later. Every so often, a bunch of doctors and social workers and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It's disheartening. Like,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of… — John Green Copy Share Image
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in… — John Green Copy Share Image
I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
And then we were kissing…The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing… — John Green Copy Share Image
But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she… — John Green Copy Share Image
She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Maybe I was supposed to hate Caroline Mathers or something because she’d been with Augustus, but I didn’t. I couldn’t see her… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Most would live into adulthood, as Patrick had. (Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to walk into… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have? 'Some war,' he said… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.” “Someone should tell Jesus,” I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Love"I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus,"I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could… — John Green Copy Share Image
“According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. Then, if it likes you, it takes the rest.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid… — John Green Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share
“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a… — John Green Copy Share
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it… — John Green Copy Share
