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depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

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Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to b...more

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I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows humor.

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Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died.

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I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

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This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?'Some war,' he said dismissively. 'What am I at war with? ...more

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Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is n...more

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How fun it would be to bounce on the back of Lidewij Vliegenthart’s bike down the brick streets, her curly red hair blowing into my face, the smell of...more

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Grief does not change you. It reveals you.

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For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

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We just did an awesome job of not dying.

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Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On...more

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Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn'...more

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With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of su...more

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You can't just make me different and then leave