“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.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
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“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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“Fire-breathing bitch-queen.”
― Queen of Shadows
― Queen of Shadows
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