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Augustus "Gus" Waters. "They don’t kill you unless you light them," he said as Mom arrived at the curb. "And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do it’s killing."
~John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, Character: Augustus Waters to Hazel Grace, Chapter 13, Page 215 “Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.” ~John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, Character: Augustus Waters to Hazel Grace, Chapter 13, Page 217
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The The Fault in Our Stars quotes below are all either spoken by Augustus Waters or refer to Augustus Waters. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ). Chapter 1 Quotes. “Why are you looking at me like that?” Augustus half smiled.
- “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars.
- “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, The Fault in Our Stars.
- “Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!”
- “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.”
9 quotes from Augustus Waters The Fault in Our Stars: 'I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark', 'That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.', and 'I'm on a Roller-coaster that only goes up, My friend'.
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, The Fault in Our Stars
