Rose lived the same life I did, but she doesn’t have PTSD. No bad dreams, no missing memories. Sometimes I’m jealous that she seems to deal with everything better than I do. But then I’ll catch her with this hollow look in her eyes and think maybe she just disguises everything for my benefit. Maybe she’s broken on the inside too. Paula Stokes
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In the novel, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, a character named Rose thinks about her friend Hazel. In the book, Hazel is diagnosed with terminal cancer and so she gives up on life and simply waits for death to come. Rose feels sorry for her friend and wonders how she could be so happy when she knows that death is going to come sooner or later. However, in this quote from the same book, we see that it is not necessarily that Hazel has a happy life.

It is just that she simply does not have any negative emotions in her life anymore. She is able to use a positive coping skill in order to get through all of her emotional challenges.

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