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- I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Nostalgia is a side effect of dying.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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