"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once."
If you play this while reading reviews/thoughts of people on the book; get some tissues first. You will need it. I finished reading this short book in two nights. The only reason is because my heart couldn't take it. What a beautiful book. It is definitely one for instigating waterworks. If you know what I mean. I cannot say it is about love entirely. However it is a very thought provoking book. What an emotional read.
The love between Hazel and Augustus was so real. Frankly, I have never read something so intense (not including books abundant with those scenes), nothing like I have ever read before. But oh they way they thought in the book. Reflects the thoughts we ought to have. Because in the end we're all dying, cancer or no cancer. I shall leave you to ponder on whether or not you should read "The Fault in Our Stars", generally I don't agree to everything they say about the after life but I believe it opens minds. Thinking beyond living selfishly. With that, I have chosen beautiful pages of the book. So beautiful, I cannot...
"There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― Hazel Grace in The Fault in Our Stars
“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.
"Augustus," I said.
"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "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 that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
― Augustus Waters in The Fault in Our Stars
Much to ponder upon. “I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”
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