The Fault in Our Stars

Okay? Okay. Two words doing the work of every love letter ever sent.

The world is not a wish-granting factory. Green said it early so the ending could hurt on schedule.

Peter Van Houten's unfinished book, the plot's cruelty is literature's cruelty. What's a sequel to grief?

Hazel's fear of being a grenade. Loving someone who might not last, from both sides of the hospital bed.

Isaac lost his eyes and his girlfriend in one semester. The comic relief carried the heaviest load.

The Anne Frank house stairs. Kissing where the world's worst history lived, while their own ticked.

The egirl gamer, the unicycle, the medals. Gus performed heroism and failed at humanity, honestly.

Funeral scene, the eulogy he asked her to write. Testimonials for the living, written first.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. Math as consolation, almost working.

Carried out of it: count your small infinities. They're the ones that multiply.