"Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me."
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"I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one."
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"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."
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"March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence"
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"I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark."
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"That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty."
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"You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!"
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"You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die."
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"We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible."
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"I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies."
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"And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
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"My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster."
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"She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate invincible," with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken."
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"That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?"
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"I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow."
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"She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one."
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"For me, the hero’s journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero’s journey is the voyage from strength to weakness."
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"Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him."
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"You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect."
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"I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls."
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