I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus. John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around. John Green realhurtthinking Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause John Green computerwaterworld Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you. John Green donerealhappens She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes. John Green pranksalaskaknowing And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another. John Green threetwopeople No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator. John Green brakealaskasaid Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems. John Green encountersknowsamerica Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway John Green worrieduselessworry My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them. John Green pleasureparentfaces I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission. John Green remissionifsgiving But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera. John Green foundationcancerpeople People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die. John Green cancermistakeyears Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed. John Green cancersupporttired We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl. John Green canalstwofacts That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered. John Green roaringteamgrace I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words. John Green hearingimaginewould-be Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was. John Green coursesviolencehurt I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain. John Green dadpainparent Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future. John Green townsmomentslife-is Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable. John Green eiffel-towerkindperfection
