I’d love to read it. Frankly, I’d read your grocery lists.
Yours with great admiration, Hazel Grace Lancaster (age 16)
After I sent it, I called Augustus back, and we stayed up late talking about An Imperial Affliction,
and I read him the Emily Dickinson poem that Van Houten had used for the title,
and he said I had a good voice for reading and didn’t pause too long for the line breaks,
and then he told me that the sixth Price of Dawn book, The Blood Approves, begins with a quote from a poem.
It took him a minute to find the book, but finally he read the quote to me.
“‘Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was years ago.’
“Not bad,” I said. “Bit pretentious. I believe Max Mayhem would refer to that as ‘sissy shit.’”
“Yes, with his teeth gritted, no doubt. God, Mayhem grits his teeth a lot in these books.
He’s definitely going to get TMJ, if he survives all this combat.”
And then after a second, Gus asked, “When was the last good kiss you had?” I thought about it.
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