“And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.” [page 15]

“Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simple pleasures of existence.” [page 18]

“These young heroes wait stoically and without complaint for their one true Wish to come along. Sure, it may never come along, but at least they can rest easily in the grave knowing that they’ve done their part to preserve the integrity of the Wish as an idea. But then again, maybe it will come along…” [page 61]

“…therefore all such thoughts were wasted moments in a life composed of a definitionally finite set of such moments.” [page 66]

“…and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when we had Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.’ Easy enough to say when you’re a Roman nobelman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.” [page 74]

“Off topic but: What a slut time is. She screws everybody.” [page 75]

“You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.” [page 81]

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” [page 82]

“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.” [page 98]

“And in freedom, most people find sin.” [page 100]

“‘I think forever is an incorrect concept,’ I answered. 
He smirked. ‘You’re an incorrect concept.’” [page 106]

“That’s what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased towards consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it - or my observation of it - is temporary?” [page 138]

“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.” [page 162]

”’Omnis cellula e cellula,’ he said again. ‘All cells come from cells.’” [page 173]

“So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay.” [page 174, from Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”]

“I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed. But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us - not the collective idea of sentient life, but each of us, as individuals.” [page 176]

“…the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world.” [page 190]

“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.” [page 193]

The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green
has beautiful, beautiful words.

(Source: ashuleeee)