#stars

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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. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal


John Green


#john-green #reading #the-fault-in-our-stars #people

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.


Harriet Tubman


#always #begins #change #change the world #dream

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.


John Green


#relationships #the-fault-in-our-stars #relationships

FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes -- do you recall? And we did make so many! For there were countless numbers of stars: each time we looked above we were astounded by the swiftness of their daring play, while in our hearts we felt safe and secure watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate, knowing somehow we had survived their fall.


Rainer Maria Rilke


#rainer-maria-rilke #security

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 #right

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 #hurt

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!


John Green


#augustus-waters #gus #the-fault-in-our-stars #grace

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


#hazel-grace #john-green #the-fault-in-our-stars #grace

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.


Carl Sagan


#cosmos #dna #sense-of-wonder #stars #wonder

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.


John Green


#names #perception #the-fault-in-our-stars #perception