Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

“When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting…”

“She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.”

“I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.”

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”