The Fault in Our Stars

Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what loveis. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?”

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying

Augustus half smiled. “Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.”

“I am,” he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m 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.”

“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,”

“Pain demands to be felt,”

some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”

the courage to change the things I can,

You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

I’m 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.”