He was abrupt and cruel to them in person, but in the retelling, they make fun of him, and Hazel observes, "You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories. Or not exactly - later in the book, much later, Hazel and the love of her life, Augustus Waters, joke about an upsetting and disappointing meeting they had with one of their idols. It's not a line that's in John Green's wise, tragicomic novel, which starts off with Hazel describing her cancer-fueled depression. I like that version as much as the next girl does. Nothing is too messed up that can't be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song. "I believe we have a choice in this world about how to tell sad stories," Hazel says at the beginning of the movie adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars.
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