IF AUGUSTUS ISN’T SHOWN AS PRETENTIOUS AT THE BEGINNING THERE IS NO WAY FOR HIM TO GO THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT THAT HE WENT THROUGH WITH HAZEL GRACE
“She’s a footprint on the beach. And the tide is coming in” - David Tennant as the Doctor, Silence in the Library
“As the tide washed in, the Dutch tulip man faced the ocean …’Water’, the Dutchman said. Well, and time.’” - Peter Van Houten, An Imperial Affliction (John Green, TFiOS)