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The Fault in Our Stars. I really don't know where to begin. It was amazing, and I wish I owned it so that I could mark it up and make it mine. I actually came up with a list of books to mark up, but that's for another time.

John Green writes beautifully. He writes intelligently, but it's not hard for us to understand. I was thinking about it, and I decided that he writes like a teenager would: honest, but still unsure of how honestly they can put words down on a page.

Even though I've never had cancer, I still found myself relating to Hazel. She was just an honest teenage girl, and there was nothing to hide. She tried to be honest with everyone about herself, but she was also someone like me, someone who often doesn't like to leave home, someone who read, and thought.

And Augustus Waters is everyone's dream boy, but there's something different about him. Not the cancer or the prosthetic leg, but the passion to live life and to be different, to beat his demons. I would love to have someone like Augustus. He would help me break out of my shell, I think, and I need someone like that. Someone who will stay up late having deep discussions with me, who will argue with me intellectually, who will challenge my beliefs.

This book made me sob, and I think that I will put it on my list of favorites.

Some of my favorite quotes:

"That's the thing about pain... It demands to be felt."
-Augustus Waters

"It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."
-Augustus Waters

"Okay."
"Okay."
-Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters

"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope [Hazel] likes hers."
-Augustus Waters.