The Fault in Our Stars Isolation Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #7

But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying (18.28)

There's nothing lonelier or more isolating than being at a gas station in the middle of the night with a malfunctioning G-tube. Augustus feels disgusting and embarrassed and there's nothing Hazel can do to comfort him when he's this helpless.

Quote #8

"But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him." (20.50)

To add to the isolation, even your fellow cancer friends keep dying. Geez. Give these kids a break already.

Quote #9

It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before. (21.6)

This is a kind of loneliness anyone who's lost a loved one can understand.