“But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.)”

—  John Green, book The Fault in Our Stars

Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 3
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

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