The Fault in Our Stars The Fault in Our Stars The Fault in Our Stars, published in January 2012, is the sixth novel by author John Green. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar", in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings." The story is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl with thyroid cancer that has affected her lungs. Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls in love with
What's done is done play "Macbeth" (early 17th century), by the English playwright William Shakespeare, who said: "Things without all remedy Should be without regard: what's done, is done" and "Give me your hand. What's done cannot be undone.To bed, to bed, to bed!" Shakespeare did not coin the phrase; it is actually a derivative of the early 14th-century French proverb: "Mez quant ja est la chose fecte, ne peut pas bien estre desfecte", which is translated into English as "But when a thing is already done, it cannot be undone". It was first used in the Mahabharata when Vidura tells Dhritarashta when Dhritarashta