augustus-waters

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves._ Easy enough to say when you__e a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.

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

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

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

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.

I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.

Cover me!' Augustus said as he jumped out from behind the wall and raced toward the school. Isaac fumbled for his controller and thenstarted firing while the bullets rained down on Augustus, who was shot once and then twice but still ran, Augustus shouting,'YOU CAN__ KILL MAX MAYHEM!' and with a final flurry of button combinations, he dove onto the grenade, which detonated beneath him. His dismembered body exploded like a geyser and the screen went red. A throaty voice said, 'MISSION FAILURE,' but Augustus seemed to think otherwise as he smiled at his remnants on the screen. He reached into his pocket, pulled out a cigarette, and shoved it between his teeth.'Saved the kids' he said.'Temporarily' I pointed out.'All salvation is temporary' Augustus shot back. 'I bought them a minute. Maybe that__ the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one__ gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that__ not nothing.

He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish," he answered, still kissing me. I laughed."I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.

I can't go to Amsterdam. One of my doctors thinks it's a bad idea."He was quiet for a second. "God," he said. "I should've just paid for it myself. Should've just taken you straight from the Funky Bones to Amsterdam.""But then I would've had a probably fatal episode of deoxygenation in Amsterdam, and my body would have been shipped home in the cargo hold of an airplane," I said. "Well, yeah," he said. "But before that, my grand romantic gesture would have totally gotten me laid."I laughed pretty hard, hard enought that I felt where the chest tube had been. "You laugh because it's true," he said.I laughed again."It's true, isn't it!" "Probably not," I said, and then after a moment added, "although you never know.

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

What a slut time is. She screws with everybody.

I__ in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we__e 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__l ever have, and I am in love with you.

According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul.

I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too.

You gave me a forever within the numbered days and I'm grateful.

the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world