Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappering into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.
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Related Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it w... JOHN GREEN My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love ... JOHN GREEN My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great sat-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love s... JOHN GREEN I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it sho... JOHN GREEN I want more numbers that I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he... JOHN GREEN Augustus Waters was the Mayor of the Secret City of Cancervania, and he is not replaceable", Isaac b... JOHN GREEN I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it. You can escape from t... ELIZABET SCOTT I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with a beginning and an ... GRAHAM GREENE Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing? DEYTH BANGER I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the r... KEANU REEVES With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I ... DON BLUTH This is a love story. Twisted and messy. Flawed and screwed up. But it's ours. It's us. I don't know... MICHELLE HODKIN I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and wa... R.A. SALVATORE If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will al... ANTON CORBIJN I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know... JOHN GREEN Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it. RAM CHARAN I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, in... ELIZABETH SCOTT You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as... OLIVER PLATT I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want... BERNARD BECKETT In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I... PABLO NERUDA A foolish man question: “what is love?” A madman answer: “Love is an omnipresent attribute of ... SANTOSH KALWAR I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories... ANDREW CLEMENTS Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love ... REFAAT ALAREER Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash... GABRIELLE ZEVIN If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get ... TIONNE WATKINS Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not... WERNER HERZOG Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captur... JASPER FFORDE Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more tha... TARRYN FISHER I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, becau... TAYLOR SWIFT Real love was cancer. All it took was one blink, and it would spread inside you like wildfire and co... L.J. SHEN Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don't bundle someone into an uncomf... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Love Was Love Will Be But Most of All, Love is. Life Cannot Be Without It I... CINDY MARTINUSEN COLOMA Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story betwe... PAULO COELHO Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that sto... CHARLES EISENSTEIN It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way. RYAN GOSLING ...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence a... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love c... MONA SIMPSON I love you. Love me back, or don't. But this is my story, whether it be about unrequited love or mad... KIRPA RAI I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens ... KEVIN HART The Olympics are not only about the medals -- it's also about sharing a very special experience with... JOHNNY FLOWERS The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave... JAY KRISTOFF I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullne... JOHN SHELBY SPONG I never knew what real love was. I knew nothing about it. I saw it from time to time, I just never k... SHELLIE PALMER I will love you forever,” I murmured, and he stroked the hair off of my forehead. I will hold... AMY LANE This is a love story. Twisted and messy. Flawed and screwed up. But it's ours. It's us. I don't know... MICHELLE HODKIN If i was to tell you how much i miss you words would overwhelm me all i can say is every beat of my ... ATONG TULBA There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection o... JOHN GREEN My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But... ELIZABETH GILBERT It's a kind of star-crossed 'Romeo and Juliet'-type love story, where these two were desperately in ... AIDAN QUINN A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and di... JOHN GREEN For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know i... LEONARDO DA VINCI 'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals wi... RUTH REICHL She [Mary Kay] believes it was a love story ? not a crime story. ANNE BREMNER I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will ... BERNHARD SCHLINK The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us ... OSCAR WILDE I should go into advertising or public relations because if there is someone or something I like, I ... KATIE KIESLER NELSON I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with so... JOHN GREEN I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From wait... PABLO NERUDA I love you Utanapishtim. Ziasudra. And if I die tonight, my only regret will be that we didn't have ... MAGGIE SHAYNE They tell us the greatest love story is how water fell in love with fire. Or how satan fell in love ... KAMAND KOJOURI I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, be... PAUL THEROUX Forcing your love on someone who doesn't love you is an emotional rape, because your victim's heart ... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film wh... RACHEL MCADAMS My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away... JANDY NELSON I'll never tell you to stop loving. You see, I believe in hopeless love. Oh yes. I believe in it wit... ANNE ELISABETH STENGL Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and ... THICH NHAT HANH In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a loosene... MICHAEL GOLDENBERG As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of word... DYLAN THOMAS Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he h... JOHN GREEN For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended u... SYDNEY POLLACK What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was... STEPHENIE MEYER I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. Th... G.K. CHESTERTON I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I... GENE SIMMONS Love given to you will evaporate like a puddle, unless you are open to absorb it. RODNEY LOVELL Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town. JOHN GREEN Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us... AARON STANFORD You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to p... LAUREN OLIVER The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', b... MITCH ALBOM He originally wrote Love Story as a movie, but turned it into a novel which was published just befor... ARTHUR HILLER She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... MERVYN PEAKE Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wa... ALICE SEBOLD I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told lon... KERRY GREENWOOD I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask ... MOTHER TERESA Who tries to find the logic of love will die without ever being able to love. SORIN CERIN On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. ... BURT WARD Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so muc... RAM DASS I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell wa... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I lo... SCOTT BAKULA I realized that I'm lonely without her and she's incomplete without me. There will be no end to our ... TAIMOOR MADNI It was strange that in some sort of Jeffrey Dahmer meets Ghandi way I was able to love myself f... THE HIPPIE A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain ... MELISSA PRITCHARD I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all t... OG MANDINO As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you're into, but as an adult, I really love that ... CRESS WILLIAMS I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy s... DAVID IGNATIUS Some want a love song, though it will end. Others want a love story that will last forever. SARA STRAIN I wonder if there is a dark side to every great love story. With great love comes great hurt. I wond... SARAH JIO Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing a... MARY BALOGH I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, a... JENNA ELFMAN I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I... GENE SIMMONS After my touring life, I'd love to be more involved with charity. It gives me a lot of fulfillme... TIESTO
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