Top 74 Quotes About Augustus Waters
#1. Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren.
John Green
#2. I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.
John Green
#3. He looked up at me. It was horrible. I could hardly look at him. The Augustus Waters of the crooked smiles and unsmoked cigarettes was gone, replaced by this desperate humiliated creature sitting there beneath me.
John Green
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I love it when you talk medical to me. - Augustus Waters
John Green
#8. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
John Green
#9. 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
#10. I hardly know you, Augustus Waters. You could be an ax murderer
John Green
#11. Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."
Computer: "I don't understand-"
Issac: "Me neither. Pause
John Green
#12. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. -augustus waters
John Green
#13. I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus Waters
John Green
#14. The only one I'd like to talk about Augustus Waters' death is Augustus Waters.
John Green
#15. Augustus Waters-style, I read him the letter of lieu of saying hello.
John Green
#16. Augustus Waters talked so much that he's interrupt you at his own funeral.
John Green
#17. I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters
John Green
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.
John Green
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Every girl deserves an Augustus Waters.
Allia Loops
#27. Aparrently, life is not a wish-granting factory. - Augustus Waters
John Green
#28. When was the last good kiss you had?
John Green
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. The world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
John Green
#34. As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.
John Green
#35. He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace ...
John Green
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. I guess I had a hamartia after all.
John Green
#39. The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.
John Green
#42. I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.
John Green
#44. I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too.
John Greem
#45. You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean.
"I'll look it up."
No. With Me. At my house. Now
John Green
#46. 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
#47. Augustus: "I can still dominate your blind ass at Counterinsurgence,"
Isaac: "I'm pretty sure all asses are blind,
John Green
#48. What a slut time is. She screws with everybody.
John Green
#49. 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
#50. Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn't match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.
John Green
#51. 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
#52. Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.
'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa, he said.
John Green
#53. I want to leave a mark.
But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.
John Green
#54. -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
#55. The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#56. You'll find my leg under the coffee table.
John Green
#57. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral.
John Green
#59. The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory.
John Green
#60. 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
#61. Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
John Green
#62. In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business - and I wanted to try to reflect that.
John Green
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
John Green
#66. 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
#68. This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore
John Green
#69. 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
#72. You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!
John Green
#73. i wanted more time so we could fall in love.
John Green
#74. Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
John Green
