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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 89fc6f6 | And what is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is itone second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst adn her lungs collapsed adn there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous." | John Green | ||
| 8f3c81f | As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. I glanced over and saw strands of her hair blowing all around her face. Even though I could see her there, I felt entirely alone among these big and empty buildings, like I'd s.. | John Green | ||
| 4c7f321 | The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. | John Green | ||
| 62774ec | But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended. | fiction imagination intentional-fallcy ontology | John Green | |
| e5c7303 | The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing. | John Green | ||
| 636cc3b | Worry is yet another side effect of dying. | dying liked true-story | John Green | |
| fd93b9f | eveything that comes together, falls apart," the Old Man said. "Everything. the chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're gonna fall apart. the cells and organs and systems that make you you - they came together, grew together and so must fall apart. the buddha knew one thing that science didn't prove for millenia after his dead: entropy increases. Things fall.. | John Green | ||
| 0e352c6 | Unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. | John Green | ||
| 391a033 | Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? | John Green | ||
| ca4040c | She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind. | John Green | ||
| 649b793 | Augustus Waters was the Mayor of the Secret City of Cancervania, and he is not replaceable", Isaac began. "Other people will be able to tell you funny stories about Gus, because he was a funny guy, but let me tell you a serious one: A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heartbroken and dind't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, 'I have wonderful news!' And I was like, 'I don.. | john-green tfios | John Green | |
| d1d0ca0 | The walk felt long, but I kept telling my lungs to shut up, that they were strong, that they could do this. I could see him as I approached: His hair was parted neatly on the left side in a way that he would have found absolutely horrifying, and his face was plasticized. But he was still Gus. My lanky, beautiful Gus. | death hazel-grace heart-breaking | John Green | |
| 664d3ef | When I was a child growing up in Salinas we called San Francisco "the City". Of course it was the only city we knew, but I still think of it as the City, and so does everyone else who has ever associated with it. A strange and exclusive work is "city". Besides San Francisco, only small sections of London and Rome stay in the mind as the City. New Yorkers say they are going to town. Paris has no title but Paris. Mexico City is the Capital. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7606b66 | Eternity bids thee to forget. | John Green | ||
| f700b55 | Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams. | John Green | ||
| 563f55b | True terror isn't being scared; it's not having a choice in the matter. | John Green | ||
| d478eee | Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ... | description imagery natural-world silk sunset | John Coldstream | |
| 137dbb8 | 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. | John Green | ||
| f77d8d0 | Kaitlyn never wore open-toed shoes on account of how she hated her feet because she felt her second toes were too long, as if the second toe was a window into the soul or something. | John Green | ||
| 238e463 | Formerly a prodigy. Formerly full of potential. Currently full of shit. | John Green | ||
| 0fccc14 | Each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen--these people leave us, or don't love us, or don't get us, or we don't get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack open in places . . . Once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable . . . But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it is only in that time that we .. | John Green | ||
| 4d1102b | Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally. | John Green | ||
| d35cbd9 | She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different. I lit a cigarette and spit into the creek. "You can't just make me different and ten leave," I said out loud to her. "Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was fine with just me and last words and shool friends, and you can't just make me different and then die." | John Green | ||
| 467bc90 | I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before. | paper-towns | John Green | |
| 827a6ac | You may be smart, but I've been smart longer. | John Green | ||
| a7019c0 | I want to share something Virginia Woolf wrote: 'English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache...The merest schoolgirl when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.' And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know wh.. | John Green | ||
| c8be45a | Take my heart with you, baby girl. It follows you....always... | Lora Leigh | ||
| dae94d8 | I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 0e74a6a | The pathway to freedom begins when we face the problem without making excuses for it. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| a8ab7d6 | I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 7817b52 | My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did. | Muriel Spark | ||
| f039f46 | They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down. | reciprocal | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 7da55c7 | Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 7dbd614 | Make the attempt if you want to, but you will find that trying to go through life without friendship, is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 712c9d8 | So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted down on the world she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody had ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. She often spoke to falling seeds and said, 'Ah hope you fall on soft ground,' because.. | literature their-eyes-were-watching-god zora-neale-hurston | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 6e37a40 | She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 3cfcfc8 | She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she grabbed up to drape her dreams over. In a way she turned her back upon the image where it lay and looked further. She had no more blossomy openings dusting pollen over her man,.. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| fc0c248 | From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong? | humor rock-and-roll | Craig Ferguson | |
| 80c5c24 | You are not showing her my baby pictures!" He sounded horrified, which made me laugh. "Come on, Evan," I teased with a laughing smile, "you were adorable." | baby-pictures breathing emma-thomas evan-mathews funny love reason-to-breathe rebecca-donovan sweet | Rebecca Donovan | |
| e072d65 | If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it--lik.. | solitude time | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| d2a05af | Anyone wanna dance?" "I could dance I need to change, but I can dance." "Nice going, Gandalf. You'll rile her up, and I'll never get her tucked in. You wanna give her candy and caffeine while you're at it?" | Chloe Neill | ||
| 3c51b8d | We all have days when we feel small. Really small. Completely inadequate but saddled with all this responsibility...I have to fight battles against people who shouldn't be my enemies - especially when there are allready plenty of enemies to go around. There are days when I would love to pull the cover over my head and say to hell with it. But I don't do that. And most people don't do that. Most people get up and do their jobs and work their.. | work | Chloe Neill | |
| e2c6dfb | I reject the notion I am capable of doing anything 'not well' ~ Ethan | Chloe Neill | ||
| 39d5a7d | I've been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect "forever" that I'm completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway." | Daria Snadowsky |