God knows that's what everyone else does." - Hazel Grace And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or tat our species ever did anything. "There will come a time when all of us are dead. 'I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.'" - Augustus Waters "'I fear oblivion,' he said without a moment's pause. 'I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.'" - Augustus Waters "'Oh, I'm grand.' August Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I'm just here today at Isaac's request.'" - Augustus Waters When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win." - Hazel Grace After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.” - Isaac “Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. He looked my age, maybe a year older, and he sat with his tailbone against the edge of the chair, his posture agressively poor, one hand half in a pocket of dark jeans." - Hazel Grace Long and leanly muscular, he dwarfed the molded plastic elementary school chair he was sitting in. I was quite sure I'd never seen him before. "There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer." - Hazel Grace "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves." And for that, I am eternally grateful.** Don't read this if you haven't read the book since it contains major spoilers.** You gave me a forever withtin the numbered days. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. And, God do I want more days for Augustus Waters than what he got. You know, I want more numbers than I’m likely to get. A writer that we used to like taught us that. Some infinities are simply bigger than other infinities. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between zero and two or between zero and a million. There’s point one, point-one-two and point-one-one-two, and infinite collection of others. “There are infinite numbers between zero and one. “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have a say in who hurts you. And I’m gonna remember you.” – Hazel Grace And if that’s not enough for you, then I’m sorry, but it’s not nothing. You get me, and you get your family, and you get this world, and that’s it. This is your life, okay? This all you get. And is that not enough? You think that the only way to lead meaningful life is fore everyone to remember you, fore everyone to love you. I don’t want to see a world without Augustus Waters.” – Isaac “But when the scientists from the future come to my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I’m gonna tell those scientists to piss off, because Gus, I don’t even want to see a world without you, friend. Think of all the beauty in everything around you…and be happy.” – Anne Frank Try to recapture the happiness within yourself. At such moment I can’t think about the misery, but about the beauty that still remains. Nor is a T-shirt of a drawing of a thing, the thing itself.” – Hazel Grace A drawing of a thing is not the thing itself. And I know that the sun will swallow the only Earth we will ever have. And that we’re all doomed and that one day all of our labors will be returned to dust. And I know that love is just a shout into the void and that oblivion is inevitable. “It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.” – August Waters “Well, I demand to see this swing set of tears.” – August Waters “Maybe okay will be our always.” – August Waters “If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.” “You put the thing that does the killing right between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you. Depression’s not a side effect of cancer, it’s a side effect of dying.” – Hazel Grace
“The booklets and the websites always list depression as a side effect of cancer. Favourite Quotes from The Fault in Our Stars (Movie, 2014)