“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.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“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.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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