Hazel explains the novel's author had retreated following the novel's publication and has not been heard from since. The novel ends in the middle of a sentence, which means she either died or became too sick to continue telling the story. After Augustus finishes reading her book, he is frustrated upon learning that the novel ends abruptly without a conclusion. Augustus gives Hazel The Price of Dawn, and Hazel recommends An Imperial Affliction, a novel written by Peter Van Houten, who lives in Amsterdam, about a cancer-stricken girl named Anna that parallels Hazel's own experience. Hazel and Augustus strike a bond immediately and agree to read each other's favorite novels. He says, 'You put an object of death right between your lips, but you don't give it the power to kill you.' Hazel, impressed by this, goes to his house to watch a movie. Augustus explains that he does not actually light the cigarette.
Hazel is disgusted by this and yells at him saying that he's already got cancer and he wants to pay money for more cancer. When everything seems to be going well, Augustus pulls out a cigarette and puts it between his lips. They meet after the support group and begin to talk. Augustus is at the meeting to support Isaac, his friend who has eye cancer. At one meeting, Hazel meets a 17-year-old boy currently in remission named Augustus Waters, whose osteosarcoma caused him to lose his right leg. Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old with thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs, attends a cancer patient support group at her mother's behest.
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