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Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie Ma...more

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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged ou...more

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I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one da...more

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I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being ...more

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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no sh...more

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He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace...

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Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I kn...more

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The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember ...more

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Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

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Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago n...more

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The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:'I want this d...more

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Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking...more

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I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

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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 wi...more

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I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.