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Cancer Quotes by John Green

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Cancer is described as a part of the self, a tumor made of the same material as brain and heart. The writer calls nostalgia a side effect of cancer and notes that a smile can feel powerful enough to end wars. He also mentions support groups and the fatigue that comes with a busy day of illness.

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“the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world”

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“What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.”

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depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

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“I don't think tour dying. I think you've just got a touch of cancer.”

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That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

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“like most cancer survivors, lived with uncertainty.”

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It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

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“Then I am a cancer-fighting machine,” I told him. “That you are, Hazel.”

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Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect…

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Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of…

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Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

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“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.…

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“Nostalgia is a side effect of cancer," I told him. "Nah, nostalgia is a side effect of dying," he answered.”

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Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

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“I think my school friends wanted to help me through cancer, but they eventually found out that they couldn't. For one thing,…

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“But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster”

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But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you…

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Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the…

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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…

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“What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of…

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Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in…

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I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell…

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And then we were kissing…The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing…

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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these…

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And then we were kissing. My hand let go of the oxygen cart and I reached up for his neck, and he…

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“I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.” “Someone should tell Jesus,” I…

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I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says,…

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“Most would live into adulthood, as Patrick had. (Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting…

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“She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to walk into…

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“This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have? 'Some war,' he said…

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“I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and…

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She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still…

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“According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment…

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“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…

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“But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.”

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“Even cancer isn’t a bad guy really: Cancer just wants to be alive.”

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“My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart…

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Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant…

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“Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that disheartening. Like, cancer…

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“Augustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of…

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“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.”

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a…

I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it…