I tried to go to sleep with my headphones still on, but then after a while my mom and dad came in, and my mom grabbed Bluie from the shelf and hugged him to her stomach, and my dad sat down in my desk chair, and without crying he said, 'You are not a grenade, not to us. Thinking about you dying makes us sad, Hazel, but you are not a grenade. You are amazing. You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.'

'Okay,' I said.

'Really,' my dad said. 'I wouldn't bullshit you about this. If you were more trouble than you're worth, we'd just toss you out on the streets.'

'We're not sentimental people,' Mom added, deadpan. 'We'd leave you at an orphanage with a note pinned to your pajamas.


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JOHN GREEN
Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’...
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He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, a...
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Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why...
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and fe...
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I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.
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What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those ...
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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fu...
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A ...
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Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, cert...
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again....
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It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth,...
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[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, beca...
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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing eve...
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What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant puddin...
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I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a w...
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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how ...
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You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, o...
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It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
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I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. H...
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I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they ...
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And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
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-so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's wha...
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
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Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the sid...
JOHN GREEN
What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to i...
JOHN GREEN
Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
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For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and too...
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We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels -...
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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not tru...
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Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his large...
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The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tighteni...
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Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
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You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
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But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more tim...
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How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?
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AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.
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The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm t...
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I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
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You can't just make me different and then leave
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She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY W...
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But why Alaska?' I asked her.

'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut...
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Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...
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I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
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You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
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I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
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I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
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There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
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Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
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I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
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If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
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If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
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I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
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