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Funerals, I'd decided, are not for the dead. They're for the living.
You gave me a forever... within the numbered days.
— Perhaps "okay" will be our "always."
— Okay.
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Yeah, I just wanted to say that, you know, there's gonna come a time when all of us are dead. There was a time before humans, and there's gonna be a time after, and it could be tomorrow,
it could be a million years from now. And when it does, there will be no one left to remember Cleopatra or Muhammad Ali or Mozart, let alone any of us. Oblivion's inevitable.
— Oh, Isaac, I'm so sorry. Do you want to talk about it?
— No, I just want to cry and play video games.
— Let's go watch a movie.
— What? Hmm? Um, I'm... I'm free later this week. We could...
— No, I mean now.
— You could be an ax murderer.
— There's always that possibility. Come on, Hazel Grace, take a risk.
— I don't... Really? That is disgusting!
— What?
— What, do you think that that's cool or something? You just ruined this whole thing.
— The whole thing?
— Yes! This whole thing. You were doing really well, too. God. There's always a hamartia, isn't there? And yours is, even though you had freaking cancer, you're willing to give money to a corporation for the chance to acquire even more cancer? Let me just tell you that not being able to breathe sucks. It totally sucks!
— "Hamartia"?
— It's a fatal flaw.
— Ah, fatal... Hazel Grace, they don't actually hurt you unless you light them.
— Hmm?
— I never lit one. It's a metaphor, see? You put the thing that does the killing right between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you.
— A metaphor.
I'm not gonna talk about our love story because I can't. So instead, I'm gonna talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I do know this. There are infinite numbers between zero and one. There's.1, .12 and.112, and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between zero and two. Or between zero and a million. Some infinities are simply bigger than other infinities. A writer that we used to like taught us that. You know, I want more numbers than I'm likely to get. And, God, do I want more days for Augustus Waters than what he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am... for our little infinity. Hold on. You gave me a forever... within the numbered days, and for that, I am... I am eternally grateful.
The only thing worse than biting it from cancer is having a kid bite it from cancer.
