Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Kind of hard to believe anyone could ever find that annoying,” Augustus said after a while. “People always get used to beauty,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters’s death was Augustus Waters.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters. — John Green Copy Share Image
Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. — John Green Copy Share Image
“You're always such a disappointment, Augustus. Couldn't you have at least gotten orange tomatoes?” — John Green Copy Share Image
And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller… — John Green Copy Share Image
Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to… — 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 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
I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will… — John Green Copy Share Image
I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked… — 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
“Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable… — John Green Copy Share Image
Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Much of my life has been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who love me, so I knew… — John Green Copy Share Image
Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (Pause.) “What are you thinking about?” Me: “You.” Augustus: “What about… — John Green Copy Share Image
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
We are literally in the heart of Jesus," he said. "I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally… — John Green Copy Share Image
I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus. — John Green Copy Share Image
Hazel GRACE!” he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” “Also Epcot… — John Green Copy Share Image
Oh, my god," Augustus said. "i can't believe i have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes." "i was thirteen,"… — John Green Copy Share Image
“What?" I asked. "Nothing," he said. "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying, poisoned by an infected… — John Green Copy Share Image
Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking… — John Green Copy Share Image
All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which… — John Green Copy Share Image
Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation:… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of… — John Green Copy Share Image
Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door… — John Green Copy Share Image
Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally… — John Green Copy Share Image
All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like… — John Green Copy Share Image
And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much… — John Green Copy Share Image
We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Augustus was amazing, but he’d overdone everything at the picnic, right down to the sandwiches that were metaphorically resonant but tasted terrible… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
“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 Image
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image
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 Image
