Wow, I said. Are you making this up? Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from Peter Van Houten featuring phrases like 'our triumphantly digitized contemporaneity'? You could not, I allowed. Can I, can I have the email address? Of course, Augustus said, like it was not the best gift ever.

The Fault in Our Stars (ed. Penguin UK, 2012) - ISBN: 9780141345642