This book.

I just finished this book. My sister Tori recommended it to me. She was so eager that I read it that she gave me her Kindle Cloud Reader password so I could read it online and right away. Side note: she's kind of the best oldest sister you could ask for.

 It's called The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It's narrated by Hazel, a 17 year old with terminal cancer, who falls in love with a boy named Augustus Waters. I think it may be one of my favorite books. I wish I could write you some awesome, in depth literary analysis to do it justice, but instead I will tell you something much simpler. I had chills up the wazoo reading this book. I laughed out loud, found passages that I couldn't resist reading out loud, and over and over again. I also haven't cried that hard reading a book for a very, very long time. Probably not ever. I think what I loved so much about this book, besides the perfect way that it was written, was that I felt like I was finally reading a book that captured how love goes. I mean, I love me some Hunger Games and I love me some Harry Potter. But this was just love. No out-of-this-world circumstances, but love in our world. Let me share with you a couple favorite passages. Only a couple. Because if I share them all, I will have committed a crime and copied the entire book into a blog post. Which is tempting. But I want you to read this book.

"Okay," he said. "I gotta go to sleep. It's almost one."
"Okay," I said."Okay," he said.
I giggled and said, "Okay." And then the line was quiet, but not quite dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.
"Okay," he said after forever. "Maybe okay will be our always."
"Okay," I said.

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are book which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

I wish I could share the final lines of this book. It is so, so tempting to do so. It just feels like a betrayal. I need you to have read the whole book for yourself when you read them for the first time. They left me with the most overwhelming feeling of peace and restlessness. And a really ugly cry-face. It was this huge feeling I couldn't identify, so I just texted Tori one word after I'd finished.
Wow. And she replied, And now you feel like you want the whole world to read it. Especially Cody.

Yes. That, exactly.

 Go read this book. There is some occasional mild language, so read with maturity... but read.