Hazel Quotes

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“He shook his head, just looking at me.
- "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." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything."
I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, "I`m not beau-"
- "You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman."
- "Never seen it."
- "Really?" he asked. "Pixie-haired gorgeous girl dislikes authority and can`t help but fall for a boy she knows is trouble. It`s your autobiography, so far as I can tell."
His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn`t even know that guys could turn me on - not, like, in real life.”
― John Green The Fault in Our Stars

“Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Um..." Hazel faltered. "You mean you won't... you're not going to-"
"Claim your life?" Thantos asked. "Well, let's see..."
He pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death, tapped the screen a few times, and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reaping souls.
"I don't see you on the list," Thantos said. "Pluto gives me specific orders for escaped souls, you see. For some reason, he has not issued a warrant for yours. Perhaps he feels your life is not finished, or it could be n oversight. If you'd like me to call and ask-"
"No!" Hazel yelped. "That's okay."
"Are you sure?" Death asked helpfully. "I have video-conferencing enabled. I have his Skype address here somewhere...”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You kidding? So many preservatives in these things, I'll live forever.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What did he say?" Hazel asked.
"With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top," Percy replied.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“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.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“When they ran up to him, Percy said, 'Hey,' like they were just meeting for lunch or something.

'You're alive!' Frank marveled.

Percy frowned. 'The fall? That was nothing. I fell twice that far from the St. Louis Arch.'

'You did what?' Hazel asked.”
― Rick Riordan

“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.”
― John Green

“Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table.

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

To lead you to an overwhelming question...

Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"

Let us go and make our visit.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea

By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown

Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Fault in Our Stars

“Everything was new, so I could be, too. The entire world was at my feet, and I wanted to embrace it without hesitation”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Life is better when you take risks.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Never give away your power to someone else by asking them to like you or your work. Nobody has to like it but you.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Art is just escapism." Liam muttered. "It's not escapism. It's the truth.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Don't let anyone else decide how you live your life. No book, no teacher, no parents, no priest. You are responsible for you, and you make the rules of your own life.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“If heaven and hell exist, I think they're on Earth. Death probably looks very different.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“We listened to the stories of hell and damnation, and we learned to live with nightmares.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“It was just too easy. And why have it hard when you can have it easy? But easy doesn't always come cheap.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Your eyes,
Their glamorous radiance,
Their eternal, heavenly warmth,
Their delicate and intricate beauty,
The desire to see that twinkle,
That gorgeous hazel glow,
Overwhelms me,
Hazel, the most beautiful
Shade of green,
Like splashes of sunlight, painting
The trembling woods a patchwork of
Deep ambers and throbbing reds,
Like a shrouded sky, suffocating
By melting greys and inky blacks,
Like the rippling of chestnut browns
And pine greens on a trembling tree,
Your eyes, they seem, are
Always distracted,
Always thinking,
Always swirling with hidden embers
And falling leaves,
They hold so many secrets
That I wish I could read,
Mesmerising, perplexing, surreal,
How I longed to be drowned in
Those dizzying pools of colours
And never be found again,
I adore your hazel eyes,
How they utterly charm me,
Like the richly brilliant stars,
They truly are a masterpiece”
― -L.S.

“Your eyes,
Their glamorous radiance,
Their eternal, heavenly warmth,
Their delicate and intricate beauty,
The desire to see that twinkle,
That gorgeous hazel glow,
Overwhelms me,
Hazel, the most beautiful
Shade of green,
Like the rippling of chestnut browns
And greens on trembling trees,
Like splashes of sunlight, painting
The woods a patchwork of
Ambers and throbbing reds,
Of golds and silvers,
Of light and shade
On a callous and dreary morning,
Like the feeling of grasping a
Warm cup of coffee,
Holding it softly between your hands
Watching, in a daze, as it
Dances elegantly in a
Blend of acorns and pinecones,
Your eyes, they seem, are
Always distracted,
Always thinking,
Always swirling with hidden embers
And falling leaves,
They hold so many secrets
That I wish I could read,
Mesmerising, perplexing, surreal,
How I longed to be drowned in
Those dizzying pools of colours
And never be found again,
I adore your hazel eyes,
How they utterly charm me,
Like the richly brilliant stars,
They truly are a masterpiece”
― -L.S.