“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
“Your now is not your forever.”
“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.”
“You are not the center of The Universe, because there is no center of the universe.”
“Is that the lesson of the caterpillar? That to die is to be born?”
“It’s a struggle to be a human being, and it’s a struggle to question what it means to be a human being.”
“What I want to say to you, Holmesy, is what I’m doing now: reflecting.”
“Those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back–it’s hard for us to understand the powerful sense of dislocation that the people of this neighborhood feel.”
“I don’t like the word ‘critical’; it feels like too strong a condemnation.”
“You’re such a talented writer; I’d love to read some of your work. It’s about time that you–”
“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.”
“No one ever says goodbye unless they want to see you again.”
“Sometimes you think everything is going to work out if you can only do this one thing perfectly. That’s a lie. You’re always in the process of coming to be.”
“People always talk like it’s very hard to keep a secret, but it’s not. At least, not for me.”
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
“Every one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.”
“Fuck every single one of those hours, and fuck every single thing you have to do to get through them.”
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.” – John Green
“In the time it takes to blink, it’s gone.”
“The problem with happy endings,” I said, “is that they’re either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life. That’s not how things end. I think I’m in the middle of an unfinished story.”
“I didn’t become a nerd. I was born one.”
“I think you quite misunderstand,” I told him. “It’s not Shepherd’s ear; it’s the echoes the place produces. It’s the pulses of life and the echoes.” – John Green
“That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything.”
“I just think it’s a little too easy to be antsy.”
“You are not a normal hurricane. You are a hurricane made up of three people, one of whom will not survive come summer.”
