So welcome to the sweet torture of reading An Imperial Afflicto-
Are you okay?
I’m grand
I am, however, with Isaac, who seems to bedecompensating.
“Dude. Dude. Does Support Group Hazel make this better or worse?
Just invite her dude
Can you meet us at my house in,say, twenty minutes?
Sure, I guess?
Just Hazel; “Nice to see you!
Yeah, he and Isaac are in the basement I'll take you to them
Augustus said I could come over
Hazel Grace
a gentle reminder: Isaac is in the midst of a psychoticepisode
I’m okay, Isaac?
How are you, Hazel?
You look nice,
Girls think they’re onlyallowed to wear fancy shirts on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’mgoing over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection tothe sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a fancy shirt for him.
And yet, Isaac won’t so much as glance over at me. Too in love withMonica, I suppose,”
Bit of a touchy subject,Isaac andMonica are no longer a going concern, but he doesn’t want to talk about it
it doesn’t hurt to talk to him. If you have any sagewords of feminine advice
I actually think his response is probably appropriate
She didn’t want to dump a blind guy
She didn’t want to do it after
I'm sorry that happened Issac
She said she couldn’t handle it, I’m about to lose my eyesight and shecan’t handle it
Well, to be fair, she probably can’t handle it. Neither can you, butshe doesn’t have to handle it. And you do.
It’s unacceptable, It’stotally unacceptable
Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they makethem
I kept saying always to her today, always always always, and she just kept talkingover me and not saying it back. It was like I was already gone, you know? Always’ was apromise! How can you just break the promise?”
...
Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love
Well, I believe in true love, and I love her. And she promised. Shepromised me always
Pardon the double entendre, my friend, but there’s something alittle worrisome in your eyes.”
What?
Isaac
I HAD ENOUGH OF THIS BULLS**T
Here we go
Get it. Kick the shit out of that chair!
I know, right?
I can’t stopthinking about that book
Hold on
Dude, pillows don’t break. Try something that breaks
Wait why?
Here break these trophies
I’ve been looking for a way to tell my father that I actuallysort of hate basketball, and I think we’ve found it.”