I don’t know if everyone has read The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, or if any of you are familiar with John Green. If you use a tumblr or any sort of quotes/image platform based for sharing, you will recognize Looking for Alaska and the quote if I was drizzle, she was a hurricane.

This book literally knocked me down. It took everything I had and lit it on fire. More so than The Hunger Games did only two weeks prior. 

At first impressions I disdained the culture of using the word like every couple of paragraphs as filler and didn’t really think Hazel was realistic for a 15/16-year-old girl. But as the book went on and the clichés became comfortable and I got to know Hazel, Augustus, and Isaac, I felt myself becoming more and more attached to their reality and morality alike. 

When it came to wrap things up, I cried so hard. I felt like everything good had been ripped from me. And then John gave it back with the last couple of pages and made me and Hazel both feel okay again.

I recommend this book to anyone who’s ever dealt with cancer, had a fear or off perspective of illness or those living with illness, or anyone who feels disconnected or unexperienced with these sorts of life issues. It opens up windows, it puts things in clear form, and it shows you that you are not your cancer. You are not your illness. You are not your troubles. 

You are your pleasures, your dreams, and much more than a human shell.

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(via literarycoffee)