The Fault in Our Stars John Green I read this during probably one of the happiest weeks I’ve ever had. That was a bad decision, because just a couple of pages in I was already crying.  I was laughing and crying, sometimes slow, like how a child starts to cry, and sometimes its so quick I didn’t even realize I was already sobbing into a pillow.  John Green, why you wrote such an amazing book that made me fall into a cry-inducing curse, I will never know. The story is about Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, two teenagers who meet in a cancer support group. That is the only thing I’m telling you about the book. You can listen/watch John Green read the first two chapters here and here. Then tell me if you’re not intrigued by it. Even just by a little.  The hype surrounding The Fault in Our Stars lived up to it. Green wrote The Fault in Our Stars in a way where you feel every single thing they felt. It didn’t matter if you were a teenager or had cancer or you weren’t, you’d feel it. He reaches into the darkest corners of your heart and tug it enough for you to feel like absolute crap. You will cry. That I can promise you.  There are a lot of lines from the book that I had written down, but let me just pick three for this post. Reading these lines made me think of someone in particular, someone who made that particular week worth smiling for.  As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once. “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities… There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbound set. But Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.” “I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

I read this during probably one of the happiest weeks I’ve ever had. That was a bad decision, because just a couple of pages in I was already crying. 

I was laughing and crying, sometimes slow, like how a child starts to cry, and sometimes its so quick I didn’t even realize I was already sobbing into a pillow. 

John Green, why you wrote such an amazing book that made me fall into a cry-inducing curse, I will never know.

The story is about Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, two teenagers who meet in a cancer support group. That is the only thing I’m telling you about the book. You can listen/watch John Green read the first two chapters here and here. Then tell me if you’re not intrigued by it. Even just by a little. 

The hype surrounding The Fault in Our Stars lived up to it. Green wrote The Fault in Our Stars in a way where you feel every single thing they felt. It didn’t matter if you were a teenager or had cancer or you weren’t, you’d feel it. He reaches into the darkest corners of your heart and tug it enough for you to feel like absolute crap. You will cry. That I can promise you. 

There are a lot of lines from the book that I had written down, but let me just pick three for this post. Reading these lines made me think of someone in particular, someone who made that particular week worth smiling for. 

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once.

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities… There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbound set. But Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.”

“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”