This is not something anyone can teach you. Heartbreak you must learn on your own.

But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.

For it should be recognized as a natural law that the difficulty of of making decisions about the future is directly proportional to the amount of internal entropy created by love.

Yes. Love. The greatest man-made disaster in a world that's full of them....Poets say love is forever. Country singers, that it's something you drown in beer and cheap whiskey. Meanwhile, the men in white coats blame love on hormones, evolution, and chemicals in our brains. You could ask every person here what love is and you'd get a different answer every time.

When, after all, does the fall begin—at the first thought of flight or the moment you're airborne?

Even knowing everything, I would have chosen the same.It's only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped us, - the moments when choices between yeses and noes determined the people we become.

Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again.

Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it can do, however, is transcend it.