That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

Of course, sweetie," his mom said. "We'll be here all day. You just come down whenever you want and we love you and you're so so special, Colin, and you can't possibly let this girl make you think otherwise because you are the most magnificent, brilliant boy-" And right then, the most special, magnificent, brilliant boy bolted into his bathroom and puked his guts out. An explosion, sort of.

I've gotten really hot since you went blind.

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.