Sometimes a book can put your life into perspective. The Faults in our stars is one of those books. For those who haven't read it, the book is about a girl who has terminal cancer. It follows her dilemmas and problems being a teenager with more problems than just growing up. As in every book about growing up, she meets boy that of course creates even more problems for her and she needs to deal with all these things at the same time as she deals with the fact that she is dying.
When I was reading this book I was going through some difficult things in my life and I was expecting to get some inspiration from the book. It's not one of those books where everything ends up fine (won't spoil the end more than that) but it's one of those books that makes you realise that sometimes things aren't as bad as you think they are.
John Green has managed to describe the feelings the characters have in a way that gives the reader an opportunity to both laugh and cry together with the fictional people.
Two of my favourite quotes from the book are
“The marks humans leave are too often scars. ”
“I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice. ”
These quotes really got to me when reading the book because it taught me that life isn't always easy and we can hurt other people without doing it on purpose. We are all in this world to leave a mark on other people but many times we fail with that mission and instead of leaving a positive mark we scar them.
The second quote also hit me for the fact that I suddenly realised that sometimes we are upset with people for no reason. It might not be their fault that they do something or something happens to them or the people around them but we can't blame them because it wasn't their fault.
The book doesn't only teach you that life isn't always perfect but we can still appreciate what we've got and that it's the small things in life that make life worth living as cliché as it sounds.
When reading this book I felt that there was one thing that I didn't realise before but it all made sense now. If you've read the book you will know what part I'm talking about. Sometimes we create a picture of something in our head. This makes us look up to someone or something that in the end might be something completely different. So instead of creating an unreal image of the world and the people around us we need to look at it for what it really is. Yes, we might find comfort in admiring someone famous or in a book but in the end it's are attitude that is comforting us and the book or person only brings that out from us. We need to learn how to bring that out ourselves.
I can't recommend the book enough, not only because it is really good but also there is a life lesson in it that is worth learning.
By the way, it's coming out on film in June. Here is the trailer.
When I was reading this book I was going through some difficult things in my life and I was expecting to get some inspiration from the book. It's not one of those books where everything ends up fine (won't spoil the end more than that) but it's one of those books that makes you realise that sometimes things aren't as bad as you think they are.
John Green has managed to describe the feelings the characters have in a way that gives the reader an opportunity to both laugh and cry together with the fictional people.
Two of my favourite quotes from the book are
“The marks humans leave are too often scars. ”
“I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice. ”
These quotes really got to me when reading the book because it taught me that life isn't always easy and we can hurt other people without doing it on purpose. We are all in this world to leave a mark on other people but many times we fail with that mission and instead of leaving a positive mark we scar them.
The second quote also hit me for the fact that I suddenly realised that sometimes we are upset with people for no reason. It might not be their fault that they do something or something happens to them or the people around them but we can't blame them because it wasn't their fault.
The book doesn't only teach you that life isn't always perfect but we can still appreciate what we've got and that it's the small things in life that make life worth living as cliché as it sounds.
When reading this book I felt that there was one thing that I didn't realise before but it all made sense now. If you've read the book you will know what part I'm talking about. Sometimes we create a picture of something in our head. This makes us look up to someone or something that in the end might be something completely different. So instead of creating an unreal image of the world and the people around us we need to look at it for what it really is. Yes, we might find comfort in admiring someone famous or in a book but in the end it's are attitude that is comforting us and the book or person only brings that out from us. We need to learn how to bring that out ourselves.
I can't recommend the book enough, not only because it is really good but also there is a life lesson in it that is worth learning.
By the way, it's coming out on film in June. Here is the trailer.
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