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...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

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The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly e...more

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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no sh...more

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It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

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He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace...

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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.

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It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted fo...more

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We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I ...more

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I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

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Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I kn...more

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Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

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The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember ...more

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

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Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago n...more

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And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.