Peter Van Houten Quotes

“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, The Fault in Our Stars

“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

“She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Yours most sincerely,
Peter Van Houten
c/o Lidewij Vliegnthart

“WHAT?!” I shouted aloud. “WHAT IS THIS LIFE?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Not that I don’t trust you, of course, but I don’t trust you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you”
― Jhon Green