23 Quotes About Augustus Water

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

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

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

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

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. 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, ' Y O U 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

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

The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember me now, " but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. 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

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