Quotes About Cancer John Green

#1. The world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world

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#2. Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC.
NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later.
I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

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#3. I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.
He smiled. Gallows humor.

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#4. But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera.

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#5. So what's your story?" he asked, sitting down next to me at a safe distance. "I already told you my story. I was diagnosed when - " "No, not your cancer story. Your story. Interests, hobbies, passions, weird fetishes, etcetera." "Um," I said.

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#6. Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.

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#7. Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

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#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.

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#9. Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

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#10. What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.

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#11. The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars,' recently published by Penguin, was voted 'Time Magazine's book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.

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#12. Someone should tell Jesus," I said. "I mean, it's gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart.

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#13. There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

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#14. 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.

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#15. One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

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#16. And then we were kissing ... The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle,..

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#17. People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

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#18. I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.)

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#19. Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

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#20. Then I am a cancer-fighting machine," I told him. "That you are, Hazel.

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#21. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible. t

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#22. Like most cancer survivors, lived with uncertainty.

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#23. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster

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#24. Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.

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#25. You die in the middle of your life.

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#26. Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.

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#27. It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

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#28. Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.

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#29. That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

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#30. That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

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#31. Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

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#32. But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

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#33. I'll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

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#34. 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.

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#35. There are no bad guys." "Yeah." "Even cancer isn't a bad guy really: Cancer just wants to be alive." "Yeah.

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#36. My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner

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#37. I think my school friends wanted to help me through cancer, but they eventually found out that they couldn't. For one thing, there was no through.

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#38. that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it,

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#39. Depression isn't a side effect of cancer. It's a side effect of dying.

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