12 Heart Melting Quotes from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
When did you first read The Fault in Our Stars?
I remember when I did - I was 17, the same age as the protagonist Hazel Grace Lancaster - and it was the first John Green book that I’d ever read. The book’s beautiful language has stayed with me all of these years, and Green’s masterful writing makes it a modern classic in the young adult genre.
Here are 12 quotes that will break your heart, tentatively stitch it back together, and then break it all over again. This is TFIOS after all!
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”
“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
“Maybe okay will be our always.”
“You can love someone so much… but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You say you’re not special because the world doesn’t know about you, but that’s an insult to me. I know about you.”
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities… But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.”
“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lesson my affections for you.”
“My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life.”
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”
Which is your favourite quote from this classic YA read?
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