You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.
John GreenGus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, becauseโlike all real love storiesโit will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.
John GreenBut ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed
John GreenDoes he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.
John GreenI mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?' 'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him.
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