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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green (Goodreads Author)
by John Green (Goodreads Author)
Jess (Gone with the Words)'s review
bookshelves: female-narrator, contemp, young-adult, read-2012, autographed
Feb 19, 12
bookshelves: female-narrator, contemp, young-adult, read-2012, autographed
Read from January 15 to February 03, 2012 — I own a copy, read count: 1
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You’re going to read many things about this book, many reviews. But it’s impossible for me not to say a few things about it...
John Green has become one of my favorite authors. I only just discovered (and fell in love with) his books in 2010, so I was really excited about this one.
Everything I love about his writing is present; his sense of humor and his intelligence. I honestly feel smarter after reading his books. He makes me think about things in ways I never considered. It’s one of the reasons I love reading so much. I’m happy I can depend on John Green to deliver.
The Fault in our Stars gives us such an honest and realistic view into the world of people suffering and living with cancer. But in the middle of all that, two teens–star-crossed lovers–showed me just how true love can bring happiness in the face of anything. To cherish the people in our lives while they are in our lives. That life is sometimes not fair; it’s not a wish-granting factory after all.
You’re going to read many things about this book, many reviews. But it’s impossible for me not to say a few things about it...
John Green has become one of my favorite authors. I only just discovered (and fell in love with) his books in 2010, so I was really excited about this one.
Everything I love about his writing is present; his sense of humor and his intelligence. I honestly feel smarter after reading his books. He makes me think about things in ways I never considered. It’s one of the reasons I love reading so much. I’m happy I can depend on John Green to deliver.
The Fault in our Stars gives us such an honest and realistic view into the world of people suffering and living with cancer. But in the middle of all that, two teens–star-crossed lovers–showed me just how true love can bring happiness in the face of anything. To cherish the people in our lives while they are in our lives. That life is sometimes not fair; it’s not a wish-granting factory after all.
”As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – pg. 125I must also mention just how much Augustus Waters stole my heart. Stolen so. completely. Oh, and I can’t stop reading this quote... *happy sigh*
”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.” – pg. 153While I didn’t bawl as some people have, I did shed my share of tears the last third of this book. However, I was not left shattered or left feeling heavy, though it’s not a book to read if you’re looking for happily ever afters. It left me thoughtful and thankful.
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Quotes Jess (Gone with the Words) Liked
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.
"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said.
'It can be sort of blinding,' he said.
'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said.
'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?'
'You cannot.'
'It is my burden, this beautiful face.'
'Not to mention your body.'
'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said.
'It can be sort of blinding,' he said.
'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said.
'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?'
'You cannot.'
'It is my burden, this beautiful face.'
'Not to mention your body.'
'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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 Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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 Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“He responded a few minutes later.
Okay.
I wrote back.
Okay.
He responded:
Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Okay.
I wrote back.
Okay.
He responded:
Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean.
"I'll look it up."
No. With Me. At my house. Now”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"I'll look it up."
No. With Me. At my house. Now”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Reading Progress
| 01/17/2012 | page 64 |
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20.0% | "*sigh* It feels amazing to be reading a new John Green book." |
