People keep saying Hank won, but I just want to make something very clear: I won. Hank dropped his noodle. Dropping your noodle is losing. He might’ve had the fancier moves, but I WAS THE WINNER.
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| — | John, in the comments of this video |
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.
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| — | Hazel Grace, The Fault In Our Stars, pg 139 (via foldingmaps) |
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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| — | John Green- An Abundance of Katherines (via paolae) |
You can love someone so much, he thought. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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from An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (via quedateconmigo) |
Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.
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| — | John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars (via wastingeffortless) |
What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
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| — | Augustus Waters - John Green, The Fault In Our Stars (via theactof-living) |
“I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re going to do or become. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how amazing it will be, and imagining the future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
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| — | John Green, Looking For Alaska. (via playingherrole-baddestbitch) |
We pretend like we live in a world of harsh edges, but there are no harsh edges. There are no borders between these things. Those hard lines are all imaginary and they’re just created for convenience. Whether it’s loving or growing up or raising a child or having a job—these aren’t destinations. They’re not achievements to unlock. Life isn’t a video game. It’s a journey. Everything is a journey and we get to travel it together and I hope that you enjoy it.
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| — | Hank Green, “Thoughts on Growing up” (via its-cassidy) |
For me the Crusades matter because they remind us that the medieval world was fundamentally different from ours. The men and women who took up the cross believed in the sacrality of their work in a way that we often cannot even conceive of today. When we focus so much on the heroic narrative or the anti-imperialist narrative or all the political in fighting we can lose sight of what the Crusades must have meant to the crusaders. How the journey to pilgrimage to holy war transformed their faith and their lives. And ultimately that exercise in empathy is the coolest thing about studying history.
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| — | John Green; Crash Course 5/3/2012 |
