The Fault in Our Stars Quotes
[first lines] Hazel Grace Lancaster: I believe we have a choice in this world about how to tell sad stories. On the one hand, you can sugarcoat it the way they do in movies and romance novels, where beautiful people learn beautiful lessons, where nothing is too messed up that can't be fixed with an apology and a Peter Gabriel song. I like that version as much as the next girl, believe me. It's just not the truth. This is the truth. Sorry.
Movie: The Fault in Our Stars
Frannie: [Hazel Grace is wearing a shirt printed with RenÚ Magritte's The Treachery of Images, a painting of a pipe with the words this is not a pipe in French]I really don't get that shirt.
Hazel Grace Lancaster: Van Houten will get it. Trust me. There are like fifty Magritte references in Imperial Affliction.
Frannie: This is not a pipe.
Hazel Grace Lancaster: Exactly.
Frannie: But it is a pipe.
Hazel Grace Lancaster: No, it's not. It's a drawing of a pipe. See? [she doesn't]
Hazel Grace Lancaster: All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. A drawing of a thing is not the thing itself. Not is a t-shirt of a drawing of a thing the thing itself.
Hazel Grace Lancaster: Van Houten will get it. Trust me. There are like fifty Magritte references in Imperial Affliction.
Frannie: This is not a pipe.
Hazel Grace Lancaster: Exactly.
Frannie: But it is a pipe.
Hazel Grace Lancaster: No, it's not. It's a drawing of a pipe. See? [she doesn't]
Hazel Grace Lancaster: All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. A drawing of a thing is not the thing itself. Not is a t-shirt of a drawing of a thing the thing itself.
Movie: The Fault in Our Stars