How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed. (1.62)
What's Hazel's tone in this passage? Is she bummed that her best friends are adults, who are either related to her or whom she's never met? Or is she okay with it?
Quote #2
But three years removed from proper full-time schoolic exposure to my peers, I felt a certain unbridgeable distance between us. I think my school friends wanted to help me through my cancer, but they eventually found out that they couldn't. (3.61)
Are Hazel's old friends to blame for this? Should healthy young people be expected to understand what their cancer friends are going through?
Quote #3
"Well, to be fair," I said. "I mean, she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have to handle it. And you do." (4.91)
Isaac suffers something a typical teenage woe—first heartbreak—because of his disease. Talk about a double whammy. Does Monica have the right to pull that?
Quote #4
"I know what you're trying to do. You don't want to give him something he can't handle. You don't want him to Monica you," he said. (9.53)
Hazel, the queen of self-imposed loneliness, refuses to hook up a with a boy who she's totally into. Is she bringing this all on herself, or is she onto something?
Quote #5
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people. (10.58)
Can't a girl get on a plane without everyone gawking at her like a zoo animal? Be honest. Have you ever looked for an extra second at someone who's a little different physically? Why? What is it in us that makes us stare? How do you think that makes the recipient of the stares feel?
Quote #6
"Haven't heard from her once," Isaac said. "No cards; no emails. I got this machine that reads me my emails." (14.56)
Monica is pretty cold-hearted. Put yourself in her shoes for a second. Why isn't she writing to Isaac? Is she afraid? Guilty? Sad? Or just plain jerkface-y?
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.
Quote #10
The dead air on the line was so eerie. I just wanted to go back to that secret post-terrestrial third space with him that we visited when we talked on the phone. (21.10)
Hazel can never go back to that third space she shared with Augustus. It's officially gone. How do you think Hazel will get along after he's gone.