Hazel Quotes
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"Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."
"I'll miss looking through the forest–your green and hazel eyes. I love the way they shimmered and changed shade with your mood, and how I could see the desire in your emerald gaze.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"
"So I'm reading The Trial [...] I'm such an idiot for not knowing about this book. It's famous, as it turns out."
"Grymps don't save lives, we take 'em!"
"Leah? [Leah: Well?] Well what? We are Grymps."
"Is this some sort of joke?"
"[to Prairie Dog] Where's my daughter?!"
"You'd better think of a way out of here fast. Because I am getting hungry."
"You are amazing," she said. "And you make a very handsome elephant."
"It was going to be our job to annoy someone?” “I know—it’s a dream come true!"
"You know what to do?” “Wander around,” I said. “Until I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths."
"Did you just call me ‘sweetie’?” I asked. She shoved my shoulder. “No."
"Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about."
"I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence."
"What?" I asked."Nothing," he said."Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half 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 existence."
"What can we do?" Mom asked again.I shrugged.But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in."
"...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal."
"Is my world turning into Harry Potter's?!"
"Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway"
"Like seeds we start small, grow together and stand tall"
"My lifesaver has always been the hazel iris of your soul. It never fails. When the world plunges me deep into the darkness, one look from you is all it takes to save me."
"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox."
"Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?” “I don’t even know what language that is."
"It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist."
"I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly.Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia.""Although," Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too."
"Hazel squinted. "How far?""Just over the river and through the woods."Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?"Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway."
"He gave her a smile that wasn’t really a smile at all. “Eh, it wouldn’t be so bad. I wouldn’t have to study for the SATs or get a summer job or figure out my major. I can drink Elderflower wine all day, dance all through the night, and sleep on a bower of roses.”Hazel made a face. “I’m pretty sure there are some colleges where you can do that. I bet there are some colleges where you can major in that."
"Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. "I suppose I should know who Pelops was?""He was a prince, won his wife in a chariot race. Supposedly he started the Olympic games in honor of that."Hazel sniffed. "How romantic. 'Nice wife you have, Prince Pelops.' 'Thanks. I won her in a chariot race."