Hazel Grace Quotes

• 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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• 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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• People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

  John Green

  Mistake, Cancer, Years

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.65, 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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• 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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• Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

  John Green

  Love, Real, Water

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

  John Green

  Life, Stars, Real

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

  John Green

  Hipster, Grace, Augustus

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.48, Penguin

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• People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.

  John Green

  Real, Doctors, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, 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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• We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

  John Green

  Hurt, Helping, Universe

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.312, Penguin

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