Peter Van Houten Quotes

• Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from Peter Van Houten featuring phrases like ‘our triumphantly digitized contemporaneity’?” “You could not,” I allowed. “Can I, can I have the email address?” “Of course,” Augustus said, like it was not the best gift ever.

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  John Green

  Grace   Intellectual   Email  

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.69, Penguin

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• 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.

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  John Green

  Hands   Ducks   Together  

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin

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• Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

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  John Green

  Dying   Peter   Vans  

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

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• The minister said, “Let us pray,” but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, “We gotta fake pray,” and bowed his head.

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  John Green

  Sight   Fake   Praying  

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.175, Penguin UK

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