You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Langu... - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."
"I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?"
"I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)"
"He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot,"I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish,"he answered, still kissing me. I laughed."I have an Augustus Waters fetish,"I explained."
"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."