Augustus Waters Quotes

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

~ John Green

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.

~ John Green

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

~ John Green

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

~ John Green

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

~ John Green

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.

~ John Green

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

~ John Green

I’m in love with you, and I’m not in thebusiness 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 returnedto dust, and I know the sun will swallowthe only earth we’ll ever have, and I amin love with you.

~ John Green

And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains.

~ John Green

What a slut time is. She screws with everybody.

~ John Green

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

~ John Green

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’T 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’s the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one’s gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that’s not nothing.

~ John Green

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

~ John Green

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.

~ John Green

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

~ John Green

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

~ John Green

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.

~ John Green

Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die.

~ John Green

I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters

~ John Green

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

~ John Green

We told Mom about the Anne Frank House, leaving out the kissing.Did you go back to chez Van Houten afterward? Mom asked.Augustus didn't even give me time to blush.Nah, we just hung out at a café. Hazel amused me with some Venn diagram humor.He glanced at me. God, he was sexy.

~ John Green

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

~ John Green

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

~ John Green

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

~ John Greem

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

~ John Green

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.

~ John Green