Things began happening with odd synchronicity, as if the universe itself was conspiring on behalf of their love story.


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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREEN
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassi...
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I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.
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I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to us...
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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
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And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall...
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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...
JOHN GREEN
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...
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What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to i...
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