There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.
My rule is that I will sign anything anywhere for anyone, except bare skin. I used to say that I would happily sign bare skin, but A. I am a married man, and B. no one ever wanted me to sign their bare skin, and it got kind of depressing.
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John Green (x) (via gnen)
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
But there is so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.
Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots.
Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell that universe that it- or my observation of it, is temporary?
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John Green The Fault in Our Stars (via its-jor)
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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.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via 4mbivalent)
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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan (via ressaclaire)
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Most loves don’t last. But some do.
We don’t suffer from a shortage of metaphors… But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters… The metaphors have implications.
Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
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John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
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Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children
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‘The Fault In Our Stars’ by John Green (via just-jayk)
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