Quote 37
The only solution was to try to unmake the world, to make it black and silent and uninhabited again, to return to the moment before the Big Bang, in the beginning when there was the Word, and to live in that vacuous space alone with the Word. (7.3)
Hazel has very strange pain regulation methods. Do you think she thinks these big thoughts because she's contemplating her mortality? Or is she just a deep kid through and through?
Quote 38
I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me (8.41)
Hazel doesn't want to let cancer rule her life. And we have to say, once she meets Augustus, she does a pretty good job of letting go and making things happen.
Quote 39
"I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." (20.59)
Even though Hazel and Gus had a limited amount of time together, it was valuable enough to count as infinity. What a sweet and heartbreaking way to see it.