Hazel Grace Quotes

• Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

  John Green

  Romantic, Heartbreak, Stars

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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 way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

  John Green

  Love, Fighting, Long

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.215, Penguin

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• I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

  John Green

  Grateful, Numbers, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

  John Green

  Cancer, Dying, Sides

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

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• All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.

  John Green

  Years, Forever, Grace

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.46, Penguin UK

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• That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Stars, Pain

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

  John Green

  Life, Stars, Grateful

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.148, Penguin

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• My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

  John Green

  Stars, I Hate You, Green

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

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• As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

  John Green

  Love, Romantic, Stars

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.75, Penguin

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• It's 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

  Real, Giving, Teeth

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.230, Penguin

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• You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now

  John Green

  Mean, House, Looks

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• You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

  John Green

  Romantic, Hurt, Determination

  "The Fault in our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

  John Green

  Mother, Book, Winter

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

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• My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

  John Green

  Littles, Faults, Infinity

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• Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

  John Green

  Children, Swings, Grace

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.75, Penguin

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• Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

  John Green

  Pain, Joy, Broccoli

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.28, Penguin

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• Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.

  John Green

  Real, War, Cancer

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• ...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

  John Green

  Dream, Ambition, Done

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.305, Penguin

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• "Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."

  John Green

  Said, Sentences, Know How

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

  John Green

  Dark, Men, Blind

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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• 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

  Stars, Real, Reading

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin

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• What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Hurt, Real

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• The marks humans leave are too often scars.

  John Green

  Pain, Real, Green

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

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• Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

  John Green

  Romantic, Beautiful, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

  John Green

  Stars, Faults, Roller Coaster

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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