The Fault In Our Stars Hazel Lancaster Quotes

In the novel, The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Lancaster is the narrator. She is a sixteen year old girl from Indiana. She was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer that spread to her lungs when she was thirteen years old. Hazel knows that she won’t be like all other teenagers and she doesn’t feel bad about that. She does not sugarcoat her cancer throughout this novel, she knows that she takes medication to keep her tumors okay. But she doesn’t feel bad for herself at all. Hazel is her own person. She’s very sophisticated as said by Augustus, “A college girl," he said, nodding. "That explains the aura of sophistication.” She finished high school early and now she takes college courses. She also does not care what is cool; she just knows what she likes. Her mother often teases her about how she does …show more content…
That may be so, but she is considerate. She's not entirely enthusiastic about living life to the fullest, but she does her best to minimize the hurt or damage she could cause. She even tries to stay away from Augustus because she doesn’t want to hurt him as shown by this quote, “I realized while listening to Kaitlyn that I didn't have a premonition of hurting him. I had a postmonition.” Hazel has a very strong personality. She’s smart, sophisticated, thoughtful, and strong-minded which makes her extremely different than her peers and she seems to be ahead of her age. Although she is a pretty good kid, she is very cynical and she believes everyone is doomed because they will die. Hazel’s main thought process is to tread lightly on the world for the rest of her life. She doesn’t want to hurt those around her as little as possible. This is why she’s obsessed with the novel, Imperial Affliction, because it’s about a young girl with cancer just like her, but the book ends