Quote 1
I went to Support Group for the same reason that I'd once allowed nurses with a mere eighteen months of graduate education to poison me with exotically named chemicals: I wanted to make my parents happy. (1.28)
Hazel may be a grumpy teen, but despite her griping and groaning, she still goes to Support Group. Why? Because her parents tell her to. She's always looking out for them, even when it makes the little time she has left on earth a little less awesome for her.
Quote 2
It occurred to me that the reason my parents had no money was me. I'd sapped the family savings with Phalanxifor copays, and Mom couldn't work because she had taken on the full-time profession of Hovering Over Me. (5.135)
Uh oh. Hazel's getting the guilt-bug pretty young. Does that mean that everything she does for her parents—going to Support Group, for example—is out of guilt?
Quote 3
I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering. (8.15)
If you ask us, Hazel's also the alpha and omega of teenage angst. Why does she feel like she's just a source of suffering to her parents? Is it because of the way her parents act around her or does it come from inside Hazel?