The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”

If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know?

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice:

‘Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.’

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

“Hazel Grace, when you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you… now, that’s the trick.”

“Even cancer isn’t a bad guy really: Cancer just wants to be alive.”

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim—as you will be—of the universe’s need to make and unmake all that is possible.

So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay.

‘Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.’

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”

it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world.

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.