Top 100 John Augustus Quotes
#1. America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin
H.W. Brands
#2. A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. ~ John Augustus Shedd
Tracy Korn
#3. Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this."
"Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish."
"God, you're the best," I told him.
"I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.
John Green
#4. Augustus Waters-style, I read him the letter of lieu of saying hello.
John Green
#5. 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
#6. Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."
Computer: "I don't understand-"
Issac: "Me neither. Pause
John Green
#7. Out of nowhere, Augustus asked, do you believe in an after life?
John Green
#8. Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.
John Green
#9. I guess I had a hamartia after all.
John Green
#10. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. -augustus waters
John Green
#11. 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
#12. Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
John Green
#13. And then, having made my rhetorical point, I will put my robot eyes on, because I mean, with robot eyes you can probably see through girls' shirts and stuff. Augustus, my friend, Godspeed.
John Green
#14. I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus Waters
John Green
#15. i wanted more time so we could fall in love.
John Green
#16. Shh. Shh. This is getting awesome."
-Augustus
John Green
#17. You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!
John Green
#18. The only one I'd like to talk about Augustus Waters' death is Augustus Waters.
John Green
#19. Augustus: I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up.
Hazel: And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you.
John Green
#20. The ... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.
Augustus John
#21. And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon the observer of the universe.
John Green
#22. I said to Augustus, "Observation: Standing in line is a form of oppression," and he said, "Seriously.
John Green
#23. ( ... ) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.
John Green
#24. We are the hands, feet and mouthpiece of Christ. We are His ambassadors on Earth, called to stop injustice and restore His people.
James Augustus St. John
#25. Augustus was amazing, but he'd overdone everything at the picnic, right down to the sandwiches that were metaphorically resonant but tasted terrible and the memorized soliloquy that prevented conversation. It all felt Romantic, but not romantic.
John Green
#26. Augustus Waters talked so much that he's interrupt you at his own funeral.
John Green
#27. We'll now hear a few words from Augustus's special friend, Hazel." Special friend? There were some titters in the audience, so I figured it was safe for me to start out by saying to the minister, "I was his girlfriend." That got a laugh.
John Green
#28. 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
#30. Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.
John Green
#31. The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.
John Green
#32. When was the last good kiss you had?
John Green
#33. Augustus Waters drove horrifically. Whether stopping or starting, everything happened with a tremendous JOLT. I flew against the seat belt of his Toyota SUV
John Green
#35. and collarbone that Augustus had seen. It wasn't obscene
John Green
#36. Finally I did call him. His phone rang five times and then went to voice mail. "You've reached the voice mail of Augustus Waters," he said, the clarion voice I'd fallen for. "Leave a message." It beeped. The dead air on the line was so eerie.
John Green
#37. Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.
John Green
#38. I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.
John Green
#39. 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?!
John Green
#40. I hardly know you, Augustus Waters. You could be an ax murderer
John Green
#41. I love it when you talk medical to me. - Augustus Waters
John Green
#42. His goofy grin. I watched my own screen through squinted eyes as the mountain grew with the bodies of Persians and Spartans. When the Persians finally overran the Spartans, I looked over at Augustus again. Even though the good guys had just lost, Augustus seemed downright
John Green
#43. I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.
John Green
#44. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
John Green
#45. While the mass of men went on leading thoroughly unexamined lives of monstrous consumption, Augustus Waters examined the collection of the Rijksmuseum from afar.
John Green
#46. Augustus half smiled. Because you're beautiful, I enjoy looking at beaufitul people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence ... I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything.
John Green
#47. The world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
John Green
#49. I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.
John Green
#50. As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.
John Green
#51. He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace ...
John Green
#52. -so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.
John Green
#53. 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.
John Green
#54. It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...
John Green
#55. 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
#56. The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory.
John Green
#57. The fact that Augustus made me feel special did not necessarily indicate that I was special.
John Green
#58. Oh, my god," Augustus said. "I can't believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliche wishes."
"I was thirteen," I said again, although of course I was only thinking "crush crush crush crush crush". I was flattered but changed the subject immediately.
John Green
#59. 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
#60. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral.
John Green
#61. You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. - Augustus Waters
John Green
#62. You'll find my leg under the coffee table.
John Green
#64. John Williams is best known for his novels, Nothing But the Night, Stoner, Butcher's Crossing, and Augustus, for which he won the National Book Award in 1973.
John Edward Williams
#65. This is being written abord the S.S. Augustus, three days at sea. My suitcase is full of peanut butter, and I am a fugitive from the suburbs of all large cities.
John Cheever
#66. I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters
John Green
#67. But he didn't survive a war, not really," Augustus said. "He survived a genocide.
John Green
#68. His excitement was adorable. I couldn't resist. I leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. -Hazel Grace Lancaster, The Fault In Our Stars
John Green
#69. A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
Augustus John
#70. If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance
James Augustus St. John
#71. I want to leave a mark.
But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.
John Green
#72. Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren.
John Green
#73. Hazel, do you enjoy it?' I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus or his parents. 'Most of the people are really nice,' I finally said.
John Green
#74. I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.
John Green
#76. Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.
'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa, he said.
John Green
#77. 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
#78. This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore
John Green
#79. Dear Augustus:
I will take care of Hazel if your you take care to Tris.
- Love always Tobias.
John Green
#80. 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
#81. When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.
John Green
#82. We need not forgive ourselves," he (Augustus) said. "It has been a marriage. It has been better than most.
John Williams
#83. He presses his forehead down on the podium and I watched his shoulders shake, and then finally, he said, "Goddamn it, Augustus, editing your own eulogy."
"Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus," Gus said.
John Green
#84. You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
John Green
#85. Dad: "You're a survivor yourself, then?" Augustus: "I am. I didn't cut this fella off for the sheer unadulterated pleasure of it, although it is an excellent weight-loss strategy. Legs are heavy!" Dad:
John Green
#86. I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.
John Green
#87. Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
John Green
#88. Van Houten nodded and said, "Did you close the deal with that chick yet?" Whereupon I encountered for the first and only time a truly speechless Augustus Waters. "I," he started, "um, I, Hazel, um. Well." "This boy appears to have some kind of developmental delay," Peter Van Houten said to Lidewij.
John Green
#89. All at once, I couldn't figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.
John Green
#90. We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.
John Green
#91. It's all good, Hazel Grace. But just be clear, when I thought I saw Caroline Mathers' ghost in support group, I was not entirely happy. I was staring, but I wasn't yearning, if you know what I mean.
John Green
#92. Augustus Waters was sitting on the front step as we pulled into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange tulips just beginning to bloom.
John Green
#93. 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
#94. I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.
John Green
#95. In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business - and I wanted to try to reflect that.
John Green
#96. Augustus smiled. 'Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existance.
John Green
#97. Aparrently, life is not a wish-granting factory. - Augustus Waters
John Green
#98. We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
I do, Augustus.
I do.
John Green
#99. Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
John Ortberg
#100. Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
John Green
