The Fault in Our Stars

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remnants.Augustus stepped toward him and looked down. “Feel better?” he asked.“No,” Isaac mumbled, his chest heaving.“That’s the thing about pain,” Augustus said, and then glanced back at me.“It demands to be felt.”
CHAPTER FIVEI did not speak to Augustus again for about a week. I had called him on theNight of the Broken Trophies, so per tradition it was his turn to call. But hedidn’t. Now, it wasn’t as if I held my phone in my sweaty hand all day, staring atit while wearing my Special Yellow Dress, patiently waiting for my gentlemancaller to live up to his sobriquet. I went about my life: I met Kaitlyn and her(cute but frankly not Augustinian) boyfriend for coffee one afternoon; I ingestedmy recommended daily allowance of Phalanxifor; I attended classes threemornings that week at MCC; and every night, I sat down to dinner with my momand dad.Sunday night, we had pizza with green peppers and broccoli. We wereseated around our little circular table in the kitchen when my phone startedsinging, but I wasn’t allowed to check it because we have a strict no-phonesduring-dinnerrule.So I ate a little while Mom and Dad talked about this earthquake that hadjust happened in Papua New Guinea. They met in the Peace Corps in Papua NewGuinea, and so whenever anything happened there, even something terrible, itwas like all of a sudden they were not large sedentary creatures, but the youngand idealistic and self-sufficient and rugged people they had once been, and theirrapture was such that they didn’t even glance over at me as I ate faster than I’dever eaten, transmitting items from my plate into my mouth with a speed andferocity that left me quite out of breath, which of course made me worry that mylungs were again swimming in a rising pool of fluid. I banished the thought asbest I could. I had a PET scan scheduled in a couple weeks. If something waswrong, I’d find out soon enough. Nothing to be gained by worrying betweennow and then.And yet still I worried. I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worryis yet another side effect of dying.Finally I finished and said, “Can I be excused?” and they hardly evenpaused from their conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of Guineaninfrastructure. I grabbed my phone from my purse on the kitchen counter andchecked my recent calls. Augustus Waters.
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Page 6 and 7: ContentsEPIGRAPHAUTHOR’S NOTECHAP
Page 8 and 9: AUTHOR’S NOTEThis is not so much
Page 10 and 11: sword of Damocles to give him the r
Page 12 and 13: I was quite sure I’d never seen h
Page 14 and 15: And yet, just this once, I decided
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Page 18 and 19: house. But of course there is alway
Page 20 and 21: bite it.“Yeah,” he said. “I
Page 22 and 23: said.“That’s exactly what we fo
Page 24 and 25: liked that he had two names. I’ve
Page 26 and 27: Natalie Portman, who’s pretty bad
Page 28 and 29: CHAPTER THREEI stayed up pretty lat
Page 30 and 31: bought a Diet Coke. It was 3:21.I w
Page 32 and 33: hours to myself.I liked my mom, but
Page 34 and 35: CHAPTER FOURI went to bed a little
Page 36 and 37: “Don’t be. I’m already on Req
Page 38 and 39: “Nah, I’m good. Thanks, though,
Page 40 and 41: beneath him. His dismembered body e
Page 44 and 45: I went out the back door into the t
Page 46 and 47: My name is Hazel Grace Lancaster. M
Page 48 and 49: days later, Van Houten still hadn
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Page 52 and 53: “What’d you do?”I sighed loud
Page 54 and 55: Dad: “You have to understand that
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Page 58 and 59: CHAPTER SIXMom was folding my laund
Page 60 and 61: “Kaitlyn,” I said.“Sorry. Do
Page 62 and 63: is a way of thinking about it.“Ha
Page 64 and 65: I wrote back.Okay.He responded:I ju
Page 66 and 67: CHAPTER SEVENI screamed to wake up
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Page 76 and 77: and together we wrote an ad.“Head
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Page 80 and 81: Everyone sat and Patrick began his
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Page 84 and 85: Dad answered with his mouth full.
Page 86 and 87: everywhere with all my books in it,
Page 88 and 89: “You’re a hard person to comfor
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“That’s too bad. I am so in the
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“Are these houses very old?” as
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Augustus, “The suit you wear to f
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The waiter arrived with two more gl
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“Sure, I fear earthly oblivion. B
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about Caroline Mathers?”“And yo
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“Well,” he said, “to be fair,
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good outfit; nervous that we wouldn
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room. It looked like a museum, exce
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“Um,” Augustus said.“He seeme
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off.“No,” I said.“Excuse me?
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been promised. Something inside me
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standing above me, rolling my oxyge
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Aron Franks. Four. Four Aron Franks
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We squeezed into the tiny elevator
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yrs,Hazel Grace
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“The negative image of things blo
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“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you,
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you,” I said.“Would it be absol
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“Maybe, but he didn’t have to b
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pulled out. He sat.“I can still d
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“Really?” Isaac asked excitedly
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pacing in the waiting room, talking
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His parents stayed inside, but when
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CHAPTER SEVENTEENOne morning, a mon
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CHAPTER EIGHTEENI woke up to my pho
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soared like an indomitable eagle un
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CHAPTER NINETEENHe came home from t
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“Terrible tragedy, that. But can
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was a two-year-old about to dart ou
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resonances of human waste productio
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONEAugustus Waters d
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You’ll live forever in our hearts
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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWOWhen we first got
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The minister called up Isaac, who w
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He interrupted again while unscrewi
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREEA couple days l
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finished it and left it on his comp
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After a second, I said, “So it’
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138 turned down. He’d never made
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out of me through the tube—and ye
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Dad said, “We’ve both been worr
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVEI woke up the ne
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I refreshed my email continually th
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there?”“Sorry, yeah, what?”
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ridiculous attempt to survive our d
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe author would lik
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ALSO BY JOHN GREENLooking for Alask
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