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- There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- [Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.
- 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
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