- “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
- “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.”
- “Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.” <3
- “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
- “Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
- “That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
- “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
- “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
nov 9 2013 ∞
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