Peter Van Houten Quotes

• 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.

  John Green

  Dying, Peter, Vans

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

  John Green

  Hands, Ducks, Together

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

  John Green

  Sight, Fake, Praying

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

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• 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.

  John Green

  Grace, Intellectual, Email

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

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