At its simplest level, the word pas means a step or pace. However, you may be more familiar with the word as a way to form a negative sentence or phrase. To negate a sentence (the equivalent of English don't, doesn't, didn't etc), the word pas is placed after the verb.
Character List. Hazel Grace Lancaster - The novelâs narrator and 16-year-old protagonist. An astute and remarkably conscientious girl, Hazel was diagnosed at age thirteen with a terminal form of thyroid cancer that has since spread to her lungs.
1 Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her company said. She was 61.  2 Sally lived her life to the fullest, with boundless energy, curiosity, intelligence, passion, commitment and love.