Book to bring me to tears

"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt." Augustus

"It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes,..." Hazel


I could sit here all night quoting this book. Really i can't find the quote i really want...

At 11 this evening I picked up "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green. I did not put it down until sometime after 2:30 in the morning, when i finished it.
I finished it, in one sitting. This story... it drags you in and you stay there for hours, pulled back again and again by Hazel's wisdom and Augustus' quirkiness and straight up truths.
It brought me to tears, and now I want to cry, just from the feeling of satisfaction in the ending; maybe not to the extreme of feeling that somehow life has been fulfilled, but - no that's pretty much an underlying current of feeling right now. Everything else is too jumbled and messy for me to really understand but... wow <3 I would read this again in a heartbeat, just to see if there was something I missed, some wisdom that Hazel imparted, or Augustus imparted, or that her dad imparted, that I missed the first time. And to see the joy and sorrows that Hazel and Augustus represent in a life that too many people look past and only see the surface of their suffering.
Underneath it all is less a struggle against pain, and more a struggle against just being a 'side effect', as Hazel says a lot. Hazel refers to cancer as being a side effect of dying, but I refer to the struggle against being a side effect as the bigger picture- a side effect of this universe that we are so small in, we don't even bother to acknowledge our fellow human beings and their suffering when we see it everyday.

And now I really must sleep.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."