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- I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get. But, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- It’s almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.
- Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident, 2013
- When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.
- John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
- Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.
- Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Rossiter, The Human Face, 2001
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