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“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.'
'Seventeen,' Gus corrected.
'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.
'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.
'But I will say this: 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.'
I was kind of crying by then.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
'Seventeen,' Gus corrected.
'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.
'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.
'But I will say this: 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.'
I was kind of crying by then.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“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.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“-Si te llevas un libro a un viaje –le había dicho Mo cuando introdujo el primero en la caja- sucede algo muy extraño: el libro empezará a atesorar tus recuerdos. Más tarde, bastará con abrirlo para trasladarte al lugar donde lo leíste por vez primera. Y con las primeras palabras recordarás todo: las imágenes, los olores, el helado que te comiste mientras leías… Créeme, los libros son como esas tiras de papel matamoscas. A nada se pegan tan bien los recuerdos como a las páginas impresas.
Seguramente tenía razón. Pero Meggie se llevaba en cada viaje sus libros también por otro motivo. Eran su hogar cuando estaba fuera de casa: voces familiares, amigos que nunca se peleaban con ella, amigos inteligentes, poderosos, audaces, experimentados, grandes viajeros curtidos en mil aventuras. Sus libros la alegraban cuando estaba triste y disipaban su aburrimiento mientras su padre cortaba el cuero y las telas y encuadernaba de nuevo viejas páginas que se habían tornado quebradizas por los incontables años y dedos que habían pasado por sus hojas.
Algunos libros la acompañaban siempre; otros se quedaban en casa porque no se adecuaban a la finalidad del viaje o porque tenían que dejar sitio para una nueva historia aún desconocida.”
― Inkheart
Seguramente tenía razón. Pero Meggie se llevaba en cada viaje sus libros también por otro motivo. Eran su hogar cuando estaba fuera de casa: voces familiares, amigos que nunca se peleaban con ella, amigos inteligentes, poderosos, audaces, experimentados, grandes viajeros curtidos en mil aventuras. Sus libros la alegraban cuando estaba triste y disipaban su aburrimiento mientras su padre cortaba el cuero y las telas y encuadernaba de nuevo viejas páginas que se habían tornado quebradizas por los incontables años y dedos que habían pasado por sus hojas.
Algunos libros la acompañaban siempre; otros se quedaban en casa porque no se adecuaban a la finalidad del viaje o porque tenían que dejar sitio para una nueva historia aún desconocida.”
― Inkheart
“My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great sat-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there's no one I'd rather have..." I started crying. "Okay, how not to cry. How am I-okay. Okay."
I took a few deep breaths and went back to the page. "I can't talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and 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.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
I took a few deep breaths and went back to the page. "I can't talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and 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.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
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