‘The Fault in Our Stars’ is a famous novel by John Green and it was published in 2012.
It is a story about life and death and the two people caught in between.
The book has been well-received and was chosen as TIME Magazine’s #1 ‘Fiction Book of 2012’.
Let’s deep dive into the most popular quotes from The Fault in Our Stars.
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The Fault in Our Stars Quotes by John Green
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“So I wasn’t lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“I’ve gotten really hot since you went blind.” ~ John Green, The Fault in Our Stars.
“The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“I’ll fight it. I’ll fight it for you. Don’t you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I’m okay. I’ll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
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Quotes from The Fault in Our Stars
“Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.” ~ John Green , The Fault in Our Stars
“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can’t go all the way around.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you’re sixteen, and that’s having a kid who bites it from cancer.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“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.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
Powerful The Fault in Our Stars Quotes
“You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that’s a lie, and you know it.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“That’s why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“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.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you,” he said.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water’s death with was Augustus Waters.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
Most Popular The Fault in Our Stars Quotes
“That while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“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.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, ‘This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“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.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
Famous The Fault in Our Stars Quotes
“I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Maybe ‘okay’ will be our ‘always”. ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“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.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“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.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. 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.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
Powerful The Fault in Our Stars Quotes
“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“It seemed like forever ago, like we’ve had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“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.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Without pain, how could we know joy?’ This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn’t going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.” ~ John Green (The Fault in Our Stars).
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