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The Fault in Our Stars

I'd learned this from my aforementioned third best friend, Peter Van Houten, the reclusive author of An Imperial Affliction, the book that was as close a thing as I had to a Bible.
p. 13.6

affliction = something that causes ongoing suffering

My favorite book, by a wide margin, was An Imperial Affliction, but I didn't like to tell people about it.
p. 33.6

And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
p. 33.8

As a three-year survivor of Stage IV cancer, I can tell you that you got everything right in An Imperial Affliction.
p. 34.1

"My favorite book is probably An Imperial Affliction," I said.
p. 34.2

It wasn't An Imperial Affliction, but the protagonist, Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, was vaguely likable despite killing, by my count, no fewer than 118 individuals in 284 pages.
p. 38.2

And then I started reading An Imperial Affliction for the millionth time.
p. 48.4

But it had been ten years since An Imperial Affliction came out, and Van Houten hadn't published so much as a blog post.
p. 50.8

Certainly not until you finish An Imperial Affliction.
p. 52.2

"Pain demands to be felt," he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction.
p. 57.7 *

I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction.
p. 66.5

But I am particularly indebted to you, sir, both for your kind words about An Imperial Affliction and for taking the time to tell me that the book, and here I quote you directly, "meant a great deal" to you.
p. 68.4

My friend Augustus Waters, who read An Imperial Affliction at my recommendation, just received an email from you at this address.
p. 69.8

As a three-year survivor of Stage IV cancer, I can tell you that you got everything right in An Imperial Affliction.
p. 70.2

Yours with great admiration, Hazel Grace Lancaster (age 16) After I sent it, I called Augustus back, and we stayed up late talking about An Imperial Affliction, and I read him the Emily Dickinson poem that Van Houten had used for the title, and he said I had a good voice for reading and didn't pause too long for the line breaks, and then he told me that the sixth Price of Dawn book, The Blood Approves, begins with a quote from a poem.
p. 71.2

I cannot answer your questions, at least not in writing, because to write out such answers would constitute a sequel to An Imperial Affliction, which you might publish or otherwise share on the network that has replaced the brains of your generation.
p. 77.8

After that, we turned on the TV for a little while, but we couldn't find anything to watch, so I grabbed An Imperial Affliction off the bedside table and brought it back into the living room and Augustus Waters read to me while Mom, making lunch, listened in.
p. 124.8

With all best wishes, Lidewij Vliegenthart Executive Assistant to Mr. Peter Van Houten, author of An Imperial Affliction
p. 126.9

"The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes," he said, a line from An Imperial Affliction.
p. 148.9

I was reading this long poem called Howl by Allen Ginsberg for my poetry class, and Gus was rereading An Imperial Affliction.
p. 152.6

I felt bashful, like I had when I'd first told him of An Imperial Affliction.
p. 153.2

I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. "The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes." That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. I don't believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.
p. 168.4

I hadn't realized he'd thought about the book so much, that An Imperial Affliction mattered to Gus independently of me mattering to him.
p. 171.8

You know that part in An Imperial Affliction when Anna's walking across the football field to go to PE or whatever and she falls and goes face-first into the grass and that's when she knows that the cancer is back and in her nervous system and she can't get up and her face is like an inch from the football-field grass and she's just stuck there looking at this grass up close, noticing the way the light hits it and ….
p. 174.6

I reread An Imperial Affliction until Mom woke up and rolled over toward me around six.
p. 177.4

There are like seven thousand Magritte references in An Imperial Affliction.
p. 178.5

The important thing was that the door was open and I was crossing the threshold to learn what happens after the end of An Imperial Affliction.
p. 182.9

And yes, we—well, Augustus, he made meeting you his Wish so that we could come here, so that you could tell us what happens after the end of An Imperial Affliction.
p. 185.2

So about An Imperial Affliction.
p. 189.3

We were wondering, after the end of An Imperial Affliction—
p. 190.1

An Imperial Affliction meets The Price of Dawn.
p. 195.6

"So I read An Imperial Affliction while you guys were gone," Dad said.
p. 222.5

But yeah, no, you're not the guy who wrote An Imperial Affliction anymore, so you couldn't sequel it even if you wanted to.
p. 277.0

I flipped through his copy of An Imperial Affliction.
p. 289.9

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cause suffering -- such as illness, pain, or unhappiness