“I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of our social calendars: standing outside the side door that led into the band room and just talking.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
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