Here’s a quick list of beautiful quotes from the no.1 bestselling novel by John Green – The Fault In Our Stars, which is now a movie, showing this year (2014):

1.

“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.)”

― Hazel Grace Lancaster

2.

“Maybe okay will be our always.”

3.

“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”

― Augustus Waters

4.

“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.”

― Hazel Grace Lancaster

5.

“That’s the thing about pain…It demands to be felt.”

― Augustus Waters

6.

“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them…But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.“

― Hazel Grace Lancaster/Isaac

7.

”…books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.“

― Hazel Grace Lancaster

8.

”…some infinities are bigger than other infinities.“

― Hazel Grace Lancaster

9.

“I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up.”

― Augustus Waters

10.

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

― Hazel Grace Lancaster

11.

“But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”

― Hazel Grace Lancaster

12.

“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. I like my choices.”

― Augustus Waters

13.

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

― Peter Van Houten

14.

“Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

― Augustus Waters

15.

“They don’t kill you unless you light them. And I’ve never lit one. 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.”

― Augustus Waters

16.

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep. Slowly, and then all at once.”

― Hazel Grace Lancaster

17.

“…the world was not a wish-granting factory.”

― Hazel Lancaster

18.

“I love you present tense.”

― Hazel Lancaster

19.

“But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”

― Isaac

20.

“I’m like. Like. I’m like a grenade, Mom. I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”

― Hazel Lancaster

21.

“You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!”

― Augustus Waters

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