Soph > Soph's Quotes

“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“I’d heard all this before, but I also knew that this line of argument worked. If you tell people that they’re being attacked for their beliefs, then suddenly they want to defend their beliefs, even if they didn’t really believe them before. It’s pretty amazing, really.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“The comments on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter instantly switched from a small, friendly, supportive community to a selection of the loudest, most over-the-top opinions one could imagine. I was a traitor to my species. I was ultra-fuckable. I was a space alien. I was an ultra-fuckable space alien. And so on.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“I was really, deeply, honestly, and truly infatuated with having people pay attention to me.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Basically, do your best to mock and deride their connection to and appreciation of you because, deep down, you dislike yourself enough that you cannot imagine anyone worthwhile actually wanting to be with you. I mean, if they like you, there must be something wrong with them, right?”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Not that I wasn’t also having fun. Ripping the Defenders’ arguments to shreds and then reading all the comments agreeing passionately with me and electronically patting me on my cybershoulders was thrilling. It’s so much harder to actually define yourself and work to imagine the best possible future than it is to tear down others’ ideas.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“The most insidious part of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“People will hate you for no reason, or for bad reasons, or even for good reasons. People are torn apart by fame, and this is far beyond what most of them deal with. You're talking about yourself like you're a tool, but you're a person too. And an evolving one. This will affect your life forever.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“He was one of thousands of people who scraped by filtering reality through their ideology and then yelling really loudly at the internet.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and frightened and weak is amazing”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“You’re just trying to find an audience who will love you and I’m not enough.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“I do things that are bad for myself, and my friends, and my health, and my world so I can get more power because I think I need that power to do good things.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“We are irrational beings, easy to manipulate if you're willing to do whatever it takes. That's exactly how terrorists convince themselves that murder is worthwhile. And the wound it left, it was larger than those lives lost; it was a wound we would all have to live with forever. The purity of my feeling for Carl was gone and I would never get it back.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“I saw myself as a leader of the community, not a member. I had no idea what a messed-up perspective that was at the time.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“But one thing that I didn’t anticipate was that, in creating the April May brand, I was very much creating a new me. You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you’re pretending to be.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing