Van Houten She thinks I have a drinking problem.
Lidewij
I also think the earth is round.
3rd most-quoted character in The Fault in Our Stars (2014): in 4 of its 19 quotes
Most scenes with: Hazel Grace Lancaster (2)
Let's imagine you are racing a tortoise, the tortoise has a 10 yard lead in the start, and in the time it takes you to run 10 yards, the tortoise's moved maybe one yard. So alright, you're faster than the tortoise but you cannot never catch it, you can only decrease his lead. Now certainly you can run past the tortoise as long as you don't contemplate the mechanics of that, but the question of how turns out to be so complicated that no one really solved it until Cantor proved that some infinities are bigger than other infinities... I think that answers your question.
Scenes with Van Houten
3 scenes Van Houten Van Houten I will not indulge your childish whims. I refuse to pity you in the manner in which you're accustomed.
Van Houten Of course you do. Like all sick kids, your existence depends on it.
Lidewij
[shocked]
Peter!
Van Houten You are fated to live out your days the child you were when diagnosed, the child who believes there is a life after a novel ends. And we, as adults, we pity this, so we pay for your treatments, for your oxygen machines...
Lidewij
[angry]
Peter that's enough.
Van Houten ...You are a side effect to an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.
[standing up angrily]
Listen douchepants! There's nothing that you're gonna tell me about my disease that I don't already know. Okay I came here for one thing and one thing only. That is for you to tell me what happens at the end of this goddamn book!
Van Houten [beat]
I can't tell you.
Bullshit!
Van Houten I can't-
Van Houten I want you to leave.
Van Houten Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why you care so much about your silly questions?
Oh go **** yourself! [storms out with Augustus]
Other characters in The Fault in Our Stars
More Willem Dafoe characters
Jesus
Thomas Wake
Klaus Daimler
Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
Gill
Green Goblin
David Caravaggio
Ward