“Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Mom took me off the BiPAP, I tethered myself to a portable tank, and stumbled into my bathroom to brush my teeth.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“My favorite book, by a wide margin, was An Imperial Affliction, but I didn’t like to tell people about it. Sometimes, you… — John Green Copy Share Image
The minister said, “Let us pray,” but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“school and a year into remission. You had to be pretty sick for the Genies to hook you up with a Wish.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Dear Ms. Lancaster, I fear your faith has been misplaced-but then, faith usually is. I cannot answer your questions, at least not… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Dear Mr. Peter Van Houten (c/o Lidewij Vliegenthart), My name is Hazel Grace Lancaster. My friend Augustus Waters, who read An Imperial… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Lidewij, I believe Agustus Waters sent a few pages from a notebok to Peter Van Houten shortly before he (Augustus) died. It… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Dad always told me that you can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistants. By this measure, Peter Van… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens—miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by René Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Appraising myself in the mirror as I brushed my teeth, I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were Peter… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Yours most sincerely, Peter Van Houten c/o Lidewij Vliegnthart “WHAT?!” I shouted aloud. “WHAT IS THIS LIFE?” — 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
Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens--miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of… — John Green Copy Share Image
