John Green

According to author John Green, The Fault In Our Stars was inspired by his friendship with Esther Earl, who "redefined the process of dying young for me." (December 2012 Good Reads interview, http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/828.John_Green). He cautions his readers not to take the novel too literally however, stating that he doesn't "want people conflating Esther with Hazel (they're very different), and it's extremely important to me that I not claim to be telling Esther's story. Esther's story belongs to Esther and to her family." (John Green's tumblr, August 2, 2012 http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/28557373623/everybody-was-told-to-make-a-funny-face-but-i). Esther's story is told in the 2014 posthumous memoir This Star Won't Go Out : the Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl.

The Fault in Our Stars

Christina Farkona

“I’m in love with you,” he said quietly.

“I am,” he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. 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.”

TaaHolkaa

“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

I’ve always wanted to visit Amsterdam. 💖

"Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin."

This made me laugh a bit, even tho it’s not even that funny 😆

“The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes” he said a lin from an Imperial Affliction. 

"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."

“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making, when they make them” I said. 

Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love 

. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?” 

“I want to minimize the number of deaths I’m responsible for.” 

“In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life.” 

"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 its killing."

"When all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this"-I gestured encompassingly-"will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does."

Signe

"I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team."

"While the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world."

"My old man. He always knew just what to say."

"And here it was, the great and terrible ten."

"Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."

"There is no try," I said. "There is only do." 

"Some infinities are larger than other infinities."

"But something in their iron robot hearts will yearn to have live and died as we did: on the hero's errand."

"And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."

"The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives."

"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

"I shall say you will die and none will remember you."

"Hazel," Dad said, and then choked up. He cried a lot, my dad."

The Fault In Our Stars

i love the characters dark humors😭😭 f*** cancer fr i justs wanna gdodhsjvd nung nalaman kong bumalik yung sakit ni gus bro istg. the ending- i just know i wont like the canon ending but i layk how they gave an open ending. 

Mharie

i cant believe i bought into the hype of this when i was 13. why are u kissing at the anne frank's museum. she didn't die for this

claire sim qiu yan

Loved it and hatef it. For a moment I really thought that John Green and Peter Van Houten were vwry much alike.

Katerina

Kirsten Kim

I came into this book thinking it was going to be a touching story and I would cry. However, that was not the case. While the book was packed with meaningful scenarios and metaphors. I did not cry and I finished the book with a sigh. 

The author did narrate the book well and I liked the plot and characters. But not that much. I think somehow I did not feel the connection between Hazel and Augustus, although I did enjoy their conversations with each other. The author did create seemingly real characters with real hopes and dreams. But I did feel like Hazel did not mourn as much. I know everybody mourns and grieves differently but come on? Like weren't you in love or something? 

Truthfully, I liked the movie better and actually cried on that one. But it still was a good read.

Mathieu Schwab

Pratik M

Surprisingly not as bad as one of those typical books teenagers are into these days.

sharkie

Kattia

Anne

20th April 2020: I finished reading The fault in our stars in the evening (my 5th book in the past one year). I have been late to try TFIOS, I know. Most of the people might have read it before or watched the movie, this wasn't the case with me. It is a young adult fiction with a lot of romance which wasn't really "my" genre all this time. John Green changed it for me. TFIOS isn't all about the romantic part. The subtle touch of irony and transience of life made a lot more difference to the plot... Isaac had my sympathy, Augustus was really a "bright child" and Hazel, she was the bravest of all. I have never been so engrossed in a book as I was this time. The end was tragic and brutal with a lot of heartbreak, John Green definitely knows how to trigger those heartstrings of ours. I almost believed Peter Van Houten was a real person and that Price of dawn was actually a game lol, Ahh but now I feel like writing mails to John Green expressing my views about the book.
It will always stay close to me, I was obsessed for a very long time. It barely took me two days to read the book, I was that engrossed! Yes I discontinued the last time I started reading it, I saved it for a good moment. But I was sad the story ended, ended at a sad note, but "Some infinities are bigger than other infinities" :)

Itzel

You see, perhaps I would have enjoyed this better had I not been horribly spoiled about the ending of it. Knowing what happened took the surprise off it.

Anyway, it's a pretty good book, Green catches perfectly the mind of teenagers (as seen before in Will Grayson Will Grayson), and even if both Hazel and Augustus are philosophical, as a teenager myself I can argue that teenagers are capable of such thoughts.

First of all, this is my first book I have read after not reading for two years as I could not visit my favorite library due to the pandemic and me being depressed to even go out other than scroll my phone 24/7. One of my middle school teachers gifted me this book when we met since for like ever and I want to thank her so much.

The fault in our stars is an amazing book, as in the book its a bursts of humor and tragedy, I loved this book so much, the characters Hazel, Augustus and Isaac, each chapters, tbh it was a heartwarming and clenching point of view to know how people with cancer in this book live as for I have well lived ungratefully, this might sound weird but this book gave me the motivation I longed for the past few months, after shutting myself scared to go out and going to school because of social anxiety, skipping to eat, vomiting a lot, fainting, few therapy sessions which kind of helped a bit and a lot moms support, I say thank you to this book for finding me. shout out to John Green for writing this book ^0^. Definitely a must read.

ps. I know I'm supposed to leave a review of this book but this like this is my first time using Goodreads also I want to leave somewhere how I felt when I read the book soo bear with me xd

Gigi V

really witty characters. I love the dynamic between Hazel, her parents and Augustus...even Isaac. Well-written and made me cry.

2024 — giving it 2 or 2.5 stars because while this book gave us so many melancholic quotes about love and loss, it still felt repetitive and uninteresting. 

2014 — solid 3 stars because i will admit that i was forced to read and like this book because of peer and societal pressure lol

Emily

Amna A.

Two things I have to say about this book:
*Beautifully written
*Emotionally traumatizing

maitha mana

"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention."

Vicky  Nuñez 

I feel it would be useless to say how awesome this book is when so many people has said everything there is to say about its greatness. Nevertheless, if someone has not read it yet, do it. The Fault in Our Stars is a beautiful book filled with great characters that will live forever in our hearts.

A young reader would love this. Hence, I loved it when I first read it, but unfortunately, I am not young anymore. 

Sorin

Brian Wikene

I really enjoyed this book. It was a pretty quick read. This emotional love story is highly recommended.

Danielle Annika

★★★★☆
4.00 STARS 

I just wanted to let everyone know that I cried A LOT listening to the audiobook of TFIOS. Maybe so much more than watching the movie adaptation. It was so sad and painful in the movie, but absolutely heartbreaking hearing the audiobook. Credits to the narrator because she gives it so much emotion that she was able to make me cry silently in a public place. 

There is no actual major changes between the book and the movie. I actually praised the movie for not omitting the important parts and lines from the book. It was hard to find a movie adaptation originally from a book that actually adapt the whole essence of the story. 

It's just, it would have been nice if Gus, aside from leaving a scar after he left according to his own words, had written and left even a sloppy, amateur sequel of AIA for Hazel. But thinking how much he had done for Hazel, all of it, it was maybe too much to ask. 

I didn't expect to even like this book. I just tried it without expecting too much. But I ended up loving and crying for it.

chloe rae

I just can't get over how freaking AMAZING this book is. I mean, GOODNESS. It's one of those books that just makes you think about EVERYTHING. You question love and death and life itself. I finished this book a good month or two ago and I still find myself analyzing John Green's words and trying to really understand certain things. His writing is so fresh and young but then his words will take this 180 degree turn and you're suddenly questioning disease and humanity. It's insane, but absolutely breathtaking. I'm a fan of happy endings (who ins't?) but, I'm glad I knew ahead of time that this book doesn't have one. This book definitely isn't for everyone. It's sad, and haunting, and DEEP. But I guarantee that it's worth it. IT'S SO WORTH IT. You'll laugh and cry, and just go through this really intense journey with some amazing characters. One of the best, most touching books I've ever read. John Green is the man. Read this book. You won't regret it.

The Fault in Our Stars

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