The Fault in Our Stars Quotes

“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:intelligenceuniverseconsciousness

“I fear your faith has been misplaced—but then, faith usually is.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:faith

“Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in...”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:fatestars

“They don’t kill you unless you light them . . . And I’ve never lit one. 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

topic:killing

“Dad always told me that you can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistants.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:kindnesspeoplerespect

“And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:vanity

“You say you’re not special because the world doesn’t know about you, but that’s an insult to me. I know about you.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:relationship

“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:stars

“There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:consciousness

“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

topic:hurting