I recently read “The Fault In Our Stars” by John Green. Below are the quotes I found most interesting. If you like them, buy the book.
“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.” (63)
“We’re all just side effects, right?” “Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.” (72)
“I mustn’t let it kill me before it kills me.” (121)
“I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.” (137)
“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of isn, bu tin truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” (157)
“I find the reality of readers wholly unappetizing.” (183)
“Peter took a sip, then sat up straight in his chair. “A drink this good deserves one’s best posture.” (184)
“Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.” (223)
“I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.” (223)
“There was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.” (262)
“I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens-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.” (277)
“what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us-not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us, as individuals.” (281)
“I was insufferable long before we lost her. Grief does not change you. It reveals you.” (286)
“The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, “They’ll remember me now,” but (a) they don’t remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.” (311)
Liked the quotes? Buy the book here.
