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“Did that boy give it to you?” she asked out of nowhere. “By it, do you mean herpes?” “You are too much,” Mom said. “The book, Hazel. I mean the book.”
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. 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.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
