Think... Vacation (#1)

Vacation Destination: The Fault in Our Stars

  

by: John Green

         As you might have been able to guess, I'm on vacation! And like the book nerd I seem to be through and through I couldn't help but reminisce of all the times my favorite book characters went on a vacation or a road trip of sorts. So of course I thought, why not just share it with my blog? Every other day of my vacation I won't review a book, but I will blog about each of my favorite travel scenes.

SPOILER ALERT!!!

IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE FAULT IN OUR STARS DO NOT READ ON

Some people say you should always save the best for last, but I just couldn't help myself.

Chapter 10.

         This is the chapter when Hazel and Augustus get on the plane to go to Amsterdam and Augustus says... wait for it... wait for it... that he is in love with Hazel. The beauty of this moment isn't even that he says he is in love with her, but how he says it. Now, I would paraphrase, but I have found that whenever people try to talk about The Fault in Our Stars without actually quoting it, the effect is a lot like trying to define love itself or explain the feeling felt when listening to music. It's practically impossible and when attempted is always either empty and not quite as full of life, or just done poorly. So here it is:

“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.” 

- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

        Normally, I would say that I have read this book too many times to still have a goofy grin on my face and tears in my eyes, but this is different. I would almost be shocked to find someone who hadn't read the book not tear up, or at least get a little gooey on the inside. 

        -Sarah Elisabeth          

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               (When the world stops spinning... We're still reading)