“I am 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.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“Pain demands to be felt.”
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
“I’m a grenade and at some point, I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
“The only way to get out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you.”
“Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.” “You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”
“That’s the thing about pain—it demands to be felt.”
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you.”
“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.” QUOTES ON 2 FACED PEOPLE
“We’re all infinities within infinities, everything we are and have ever been is a tiny speck in the dust of an endless universe.”
“That’s the thing about pain—it demands to be felt.”
“I’m a good liar because I have to be. I have to. It’s what helps me survive.”
“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
“I fell in love with the way you touched me without using your hands.”
“I don’t want to be a grenade, Mom. I want to be a normal teenager.”
“I’m a grenade, and at some point, I’m going to blow up, and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
“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.”
“I’m a big believer in metaphor, Hazel Grace.”
“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 midst of a story about your life.”
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”