The Fault in Our Stars

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ALSO BY JOHN GREEN
Looking for Alaska
An Abundance of Katherines
Paper Towns
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
WITH DAVID LEVITHAN

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TO ESTHER EARL

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Contents
EPIGRAPH
AUTHOR’S NOTE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

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As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean: “Conjoiner rejoinder
poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything
with it.”
“What’s that?” I asked.
“Water,” the Dutchman said. “Well, and time.”
—
PETER VAN HOUTEN
, An Imperial Affliction

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AUTHOR’S NOTE
This is not so much an author’s note as an author’s reminder of what was printed in small
type a few pages ago: This book is a work of fiction. I made it up.
Neither novels nor their readers benefit from attempts to divine whether any facts
hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which
is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.
I appreciate your cooperation in this matter.

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