How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses. (12.41)
Being an Improbable Creature requires having a pretty strong sense of self, don't you think?
Quote #8
According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art and whatever else, which is, of course, utter horses*** (13.23)
Sometimes philosophers totally don't have it right. Hazel can reach for love if she wants to, even with the cancer eating away at her insides.
Quote #9
"You know," he said after a while, "it's kids' stuff, but I always thought my obituary would be in all the newspapers, that I'd have a story worth telling. I always had this secret suspicion that I was special." (17.8)
Augustus isn't trying to be arrogant—he just desperately wants to fulfill what he thought he was going to be in life.