He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a lacquered wooden boat approached us on the canal below. One of them, a woman with curly blond hair, maybe thirty, drank from a beer then raised her glass towards us and shouted something. "We don't speak Dutch," Gus shouted back. One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.
John GreenWow,โ I said. โAre you making this up?โ โHazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from Peter Van Houten featuring phrases like โour triumphantly digitized contemporaneityโ?โ โYou could not,โ I allowed. โCan I, can I have the email address?โ โOf course,โ Augustus said, like it was not the best gift ever.
John GreenSo she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121
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