What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.
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Zum Autor"Who am I to say that these things might nit be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?"
"So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost."
"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle."
"The marks we leave are too often scars."
"We are literally in the heart of Jesus,' he said.'I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.'Someone should tell Jesus,' I said. 'I mean, it's gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart."
"She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom."