Get ready to feel all the feels with quotes from The Fault In Our Stars. Okay? Okay.
This book and movie ruled my life in 2014. I remember me and my friends had gotten crazy over the suave of Augustus Waters, all the lines that we never stopped repeating, saying “Okay” over and over again, fawning over Augustus Waters, and bawling over the end.
John Green really gave us an infinity. I will truly remember the mark this story made on me when I was younger. Putting this post together gave me a beautiful hit of nostalgia and I hope you’ll feel it too.
Here the beautiful and painful quotes from the heartbreaker The Fault In Our Stars:
Quotes from The Fault In Our Stars
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”
― John Green
“Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green
“There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you’re sixteen, and that’s having a kid who bites it from cancer.”
― John Green
“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
“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. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”
― John Green
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green
“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
“I cut a glance to him, and his eyes were still on me.
It occurred to me why they call it eye contact.”
― John Green
“Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.”
― John Green
“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”
― John Green
“Maybe ‘okay’ will be our ‘always”
― John Green
“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
“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
― John Green
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green
“HAZEL GRACE! You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.”
― John Green
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green
“And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.”
― John Green
“Headline?” he asked.
“‘Swing Set Needs Home,'” I said.
“‘Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'” he said.
“‘Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'” I said.”
― John Green
“It’s embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.”
― John Green
“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. 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
“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.”
― John Green
“When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.”
― John Green
“You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!”
― John Green
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green
“I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.”
― John Green
“I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”
― John Green
“I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”
― John Green
“Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”
― John Green
“The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.”
― John Green
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green
“We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness.”
― John Green
“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
“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. 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
“I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.”
― John Green
“She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.”
― John Green
“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
“I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.”
― John Green
“But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”
― John Green
“The world wasn’t made for us, we were made for the world.”
― John Green
“I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should.”
― John Green
“It is my burden, this beautiful face.”
― John Green
“Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.”
― John Green
“Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.”
― John Green
“So I wasn’t lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.”
― John Green
“Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn’t technically unsafe.”
― John Green
“I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.”
― John Green
“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”
― John Green
“I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.”
― John Green
“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
“You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that’s a lie, and you know it.”
― John Green
“Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
― John Green
“Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.”
― John Green
“If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
― John Green
“Patience, grasshopper,” I counseled. “You don’t want to seem overeager.”
― John Green
“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 is keeping the promise anyway.”
― John Green
“We are literally in the heart of Jesus. I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.”
― John Green
“Okay.”
― John Green
“I don’t know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don’t expect them to like girl movies.”
― John Green
“You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.”
― John Green
“I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.”
― John Green
“That’s why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”
― John Green
“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
― John Green
“It is the nature of stars to cross.”
― John Green
“I want to see you again tonight. But I’m willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.”
― John Green
“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him.”
― John Green
“I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.”
― John Green
“I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
― John Green
“Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.”
― John Green
“I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.”
― John Green
“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing.”
― John Green
“I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.”
― John Green
“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.”
― John Green
“Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood.”
― John Green
“Do the thing you’re good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.”
― John Green
“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
“Funerals…are for the living.”
― John Green
“You say you’re not special because the world doesn’t know about you, but that’s an insult to me. I know about you.”
― John Green
“Stupid human voices always ruining everything.”
― John Green
“Without pain, how could we know joy?’ This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
― John Green
“You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is.”
― John Green
“I’ve gotten really hot since you went blind.”
― John Green
“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”
― John Green
“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.”
― John Green
“All salvation is temporary.”
― John Green
“I love you present tense.”
― John Green
“I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.”
― John Green
“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
“No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can’t go all the way around.”
― John Green
“It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.”
― John Green
“Standing in line is a form of oppression.”
― John Green
“I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents’ suffering.”
― John Green
“People always get used to beauty, though. I haven’t gotten used to you just yet.”
― John Green
“The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”
― John Green
“God, you’re the best,” I told him.
“I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel,” he answered.”
― John Green
“I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.”
― John Green
“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”
― John Green
“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.”
― John Green
“I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.”
― John Green
“The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water’s death with was Augustus Waters.”
― John Green
“All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.”
― John Green
“How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.”
― John Green
“I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.”
― John Green
“I missed the future.”
― John Green
“Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn’t going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.”
― John Green
“Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.”
― John Green
“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won’t get either a life or a death that means anything.”
― John Green
“Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.”
― John Green
“I have an Augustus Waters fetish.”
― John Green
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