Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.
The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.
Most loves don't last. But some do.
So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.