<u>Examples of some signposts in the book The Fault in Our Stars:
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CONTRASTS AND CONTRADICTIONS
When Augustus tells Hazel he won't give her his wish then he tells her that he will bring her to Amsterdam with him:
<em>"Now I'm not just going to give you my Wish or anything. But I also have an interest in meeting Peter Van Houten, and it wouldn't make sense to meet him without the girl who introduced me to his book." </em>
PAGE: 89
AHA MOMENT
When Hazel realizes Augustus was sick and the answer to this realization will change the future for them:
<em>"only now did it occur to me that maybe Augustus was still sick" </em>
PAGE: 213
TOUGH QUESTION
When Hazel asks herself if Augustus was really sick and what would happen if he was:
<em>"I always thought he could love me beacause I was once sick, only now did it occur to me that maybe he still was." </em>
PAGE: 219
WORDS OF THE WISER
When Hazel tells Augustus not to pretend that he was fine:
<em>“This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.”
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PAGE: 241
AGAIN AND AGAIN
When Hazel continually describe herself with the word <em>"grenade"</em> to describe herself. Meaning that when she dies she is going to make everyone around her emotionally hurt:
<em>"I'm like a grenade Mom, and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the causalities, okay?" </em>
PAGES: 99, 102, 172.
MEMORY MOMENT
When Hazel remembered the time she almost died and talks about her experience with cancer:
<em>"my lungs filled with water and my tumors grew, everyone thought I was looking pretty dead."</em>
PAGE: 25
