She was loved deeply, but not widely by John Green Hazel Grace John Green (2012).John Green Middle, Dies John Green (2012). Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters.Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.You say you’re not special because the world doesn’t know about you, but that’s an insult to me.Share these The Fault In Our Stars Quotes. That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.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.You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affections for you.I went to Support Group for the same reason that I’d once allowed nurses with a mere eighteen months of graduate education to poison me with exotically named chemicals: I wanted to make my parents happy.God knows that’s what everyone else does. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.There was a time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. 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.Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught.There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you.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 come a time when all of us are dead.
I just want to stay away from people and read books and think.
You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful. I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got.Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. I’d sapped the family savings with Phalanxifor copays, and Mom couldn’t work because she had taken on the full-time profession of Hovering Over Me. It occurred to me that the reason my parents had no money was me.Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don’t.That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.