Hazel Grace Lancaster Quotes:

When was the last good kiss you had?

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.48, Penguin

topic: Kissing, Lasts, Hazel Grace Lancaster

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.167, Penguin

topic: Rotation, Thoughts Of You, Hazel Grace Lancaster

I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

topic: Hipster, Voice, Water, Free Throw, Augustus

I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.168, Penguin UK

topic: Grateful, Numbers, Water, Augustus, Gus

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

topic: Real, Giving, Teeth, Fault In Our Stars, Hazel Grace

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

topic: Voice, Skins, Made, Crooked Smiles, Hazel Grace

My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

- John Green

topic: Littles, Faults, Infinity, Infinite Life, Lancaster

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

- John Green

topic: Life, Grateful, Forever, Love Literature, Literary Love

"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."

- John Green

source: "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

topic: Said, Sentences, Know How, Augustus Waters, Hazel Grace

I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

topic: Names, Two, Voice, Free Throw, Augustus

Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.158, Penguin UK

topic: Great Love, Love Of My Life, Needs, Ambulance, Hazel Grace Lancaster

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.37, Penguin

topic: Book, Recalls, Finished, Hazel Grace Lancaster

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.75, Penguin

topic: Children, Swings, Grace, Augustus, Swing Sets

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

- John Green

topic: Inspiring, Pain, Thinking, Broccoli, Hazel Grace

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.28, Penguin

topic: Pain, Joy, Without Pain, Broccoli, Fault In Our Stars

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

- John Green

source: John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

topic: Life, Depression, Real, Clinical Depression, Hazel Grace

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

topic: Real, Reading, Book, Inspiring Book, Reading Inspirational

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

- John Green

topic: Romantic, Beautiful, People, Beautiful People, Fault In Our Stars

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.

- John Green

topic: Kissing, Thinking, Hands, Augustus, Flipped

What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .

- John Green

source: John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.226, Penguin

topic: Names, Grace, Lancaster, Hazel Grace, Hazel Grace Lancaster

If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.77, Penguin

topic: Mom, Guy, Secret, Hazel Grace Lancaster, Unwritten

She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago.

- John Green

topic: Years, Two, Heaven, Social Worker, Going To Heaven

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.117, Penguin

topic: Boys, Purple, Underwear, Hazel Grace Lancaster