"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."
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"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."
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"“I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.” “Someone should tell Jesus,” I said. “I mean, it's gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart.” “I would tell Him myself.” Augustus said, “but unfortunately I am literally stuck inside of His heart, so He won't be able to hear me.”"
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"She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth."
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"At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them."
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"Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it."
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"We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus."
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"Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police."
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"And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another."
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"Funerals...are for the living."
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"that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world."
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"The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral." "Kaitlyn," I said. "Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top?" "Kaitlyn," I said."
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"I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!"
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"there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is"
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"Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)"
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"Long week. Long month. Long life."
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"You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus."
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"The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years."
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"In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them."
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"I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up."
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