Josh’s Reviews > The Fault in Our Stars > Status Update

"I do, Augustus.
I do."

What a beautiful book. So glad I revisited this as an adult.

"Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at the Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him."

No, I'm not crying, you are.

"You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation."

I truly forgot how much of a dick Van Houten actually is.

"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable....[and I'm in love with you.]"

My heart truly cannot take this anymore.

"'Are you crying Hazel Grace?'
"Kind of?"
"Why?" he asked.

[....I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me....]"

Honestly, revisiting this book as an adult is so different from when I read it as a teenager. I was nervous to do it, but 10/10 would recommend it.