How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" (4.94)
All we've learned from this whole Isaac-getting-dumped episode is that Monica totally sucks and that she did not truly love Isaac. Thankfully, Hazel and Augustus find that they are totally truly in love.
Quote #2
I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space (5.67)
Hazel and Augustus are so in L-O-V-E that they're not even sitting in a tree. They're sitting in a magical third space. Since when is Hazel so sappy?
Quote #3
"Well, there's a kid who has hardly left the waiting room since you got here," she said. (7.17)
True rom-com moment: the protagonist wakes up to find her love interest waiting sleepily and adorably by her bedside. Is this an act of love? Empathy?
Quote #4
"You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lesson my affections for you," he said. (8.55)
Augustus is truly a persistent suitor, wearing Hazel down even though she doesn't want to get close to him.
Quote #5
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. (8.75)
Even before she admits it to him, Hazel is totally and completely smitten by Augustus Waters. She can't control it, just like other people can't control loving her. Cancer is totally out of the picture at this moment—and it's pretty awesome.
Quote #6
"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." (10.128)
That's quite the monologue. If this were a romantic comedy, some bubblegum pop song would be playing in the background as the protagonists kissed under the sunset. But the oblivion they're talking about here is much more imminent than the "we're all going to die someday" feeling we're used to hearing.
Quote #7
[…] and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into live. (12.185)
There's nothing more romantic than sharing your first kiss in a place where a bunch of people were hiding from Nazis. The hardships faced by Anne and Hazel are apples and oranges, but both girls are able to find moments of joy in an otherwise desperate existence.
Quote #8
[…] and only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to. (13.34)
Maybe Hazel is a grenade. But finally she realizes that it doesn't matter. When you love someone, they could be any sort of weapon and you'd still love them.
Quote #9
"My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life." (20.58)
There's nothing more tragic than a story about star-crossed lovers. Just look at Romeo and Juliet, for Pete's sake.
Quote #10
"It's total bulls***," he said. "The whole thing… He was such a bright kid. It's bulls***. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" (22.56)
Hazel's dad really does always know the right thing to say. And we have a feeling he's talking about how much Hazel loves Augustus because of how much he loves Hazel.