The Fault in Our Stars Quotes

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:painhumanity

“Pain is like fabric: the stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:painworth

“The world . . . is not a wish-granting factory”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:painworld

“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:painchoicehurting

“most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:stupidity

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:changegrief

“Do the thing you’re good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:work

“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.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:readingbooks

“there are books . . . which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:books

“It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:memorygriefloss