I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

At least I carpe'd that one diem.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.

Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish. 'No' I said. 'I used my Wish pre-Miracle.' 'What'd you do?' I sighed loudly. 'I was thirteen,' I said. 'Not Disney,' he said. I said nothing. 'You did not go to Disney World.' I said nothing. 'HAZEL GRACE!' he shouted. 'You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.' 'Also Epcot Center,' I mumbled. 'Oh, my God,' Augustus said. 'I can't believe I had a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes.

And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.