“If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.
He smiled. Gallows humor.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
He smiled. Gallows humor.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
“If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.”
― Maakies
― Maakies
“This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?
'Some war,' he said dismissively. '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 Graze, with a predetermined winner.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
'Some war,' he said dismissively. '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 Graze, with a predetermined winner.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
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