She’s just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It’s Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.
And it was just the three of us – three bodies and two people – the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.
My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.
I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera.
Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.
We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.
That’s what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.
I can’t imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can’t imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don’t even picture it. Instead I’m in it. How I feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable.
I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.
And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.
And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.
Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.
I didn’t want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.
The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.