“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
“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
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
depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. — 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
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
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
“I could feel everybody watching us, wondering what was wrong with us, and whether it would kill us, and how heroic my… — 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
“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
“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
“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
I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — 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
“But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster” — John Green Copy Share Image
How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus… — 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
“Some war,” he said dismissively. “What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart… — John Green Copy Share Image
I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says,… — 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
Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer… — 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
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
