Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity by John Green

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

John Green

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I don't really care how people read. I care if people read. by John Green

I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.

i-care care people

I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

fire writing believe

Truth resists simplicity. by John Green

Truth resists simplicity.

simplicity life

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.

loving-someone morning love-is

The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline’s wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes’s musings, or Michelangelo’s sculptures. And that is really only the sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

wine silly war

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

realizing dog people

A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.

fifth-grade olives my-best-friend

Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young

labyrinth alaska figures

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

kissing powerful two

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and sh... by John Green

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.

sunscreen tongue should

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis. by John Green

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

diagnosis self

It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be. by John Green

It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

fine

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

girl fall thinking

Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage. Like you always say, kafir, everything ends in breakup, divorce, or death. I want to narrow my misery options to divorce or death - that's all.

girl breakup drama

She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.' 'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said. 'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.

divorce voice gun

I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.

strings broke thinking

She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

ifs

Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

unfair towns interesting

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

who-cares paper years

The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.

guy games mean