"I screamed to wake up my parents, and they burst into the room, there was nothing they could to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain for intracranial firecrackers that made me think that I was once and for all going, and I told myself-as I've told myself before-that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn't slip away. I was left on the shore wit the waves washing over me, unable to drown."(Page 105)
In this scene, Hazel wakes up screaming with a huge headache that makes her brain hurt so much that it feels like firecrackers going inside her brain. Once she was at the hospital she still felt horrible and described the pain as being underwater but unable to drown as she feels the pain but she isn't dying.
Dia: 2
Augustus called that night after dinner. I was already in bed-after dinner had become my bedtime for the moment- propped up with a gazillion pillows and also Bluie, with my computer on my lap. I picked up, saying, "Bad news," and he said "Shit, what?" "I can't go to Amsterdam. One of my doctors thinks it's a bad idea."(page 118)
This scene shows Hazel talking to Augustus through phone because she has bad news, being that she cannot go to Amsterdam. One of her doctors said it could be a bad idea to go to Amsterdam after having a horrible headache and could lead to more serious injuries over there as well. Later on Augustus talking to Hazel about how he should have just bought the tickets while being at Funky Bones."
Dia: 3
"The day before we left for Amsterdam, I went back to Support Group for the first time since meeting Augustus. The cast had rotated a bit down there in the Literal Heart of Jesus. I arrived early, enough time for perennially strong appendices cancer survivor Lida to bring me up-to-date on everyone as I ate a grocery-store chocolate chip cookie while leaning against the dessert table."(page 129)
This scene shows Hazel going to the Support Group since meeting Augustus, and she wants to see what changed since the last time she has been there. She soon finds out a girl named Lida who is a cancer survivor and soon gets information about a Twelve-year-old leukemic Michael who had passed away from cancer.