Emi > Emi's Quotes

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the 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 the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“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.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Kissing her felt like the answer to every question I had ever asked. It felt like the period at the end of a breathless sentence. It felt like we were giants, like I could reach up to swat the asteroid from the sky and we could fold into each other like that forever, so big nothing could destroy us.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“All my life I'd been telling people I love them. I'd been so careful with those three words.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“She was so bright she could belong to everyone and no one, just like the sun, just like the stars.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“I had always known grief was a type of loneliness, but when I went to college, I learned loneliness was a type of grief.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“There's nothing to know." Except I'm in love with you, I can never tell you that, and I know you'll be happier without me.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“We were never just friends, were we?’
I tried to remember. Had there ever been a time when my heart didn’t race around her? When my hands weren’t drawn to her hands? When fighting with her didn’t feel like the end of the world? When she wasn’t untangling my life? When we weren’t tangled together?
‘No,’ I said. ‘I guess we were never just.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“Oceans, rivers, they're like hope for what's beyond us. But lakes remind me there's beauty where we are.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“We were coated in sweat, smelling like each other, pressing our skin together, running our hands through each other's hair.
The electric lamp swung above us. It was the best thing I had ever done in this body. Cass was me, and I was Cass, and we were maybe dying. And here, I thought, here I am. Finally alive.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“Did I believe I could love all of who I was, including my screaming flaws, my biggest failures, and my cruel, relentless brain?
I wasn't sure, but I could choose to try.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“You know what's funny, though?"
"What?"
"In every version of my future, I see myself back here in New Hampshire in the end. With you." My heart sank a little. I was starting to realize more and more that was an ending I couldn't give her. As if on cue, a loon sang sadly nearby.
"You don't want to come back here. You deserve the world, Cass," I said.
She slung her arm around me. "You too, Ave. But you should know - in the movie of my life, you're in every frame.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“But who even am I? I feel like I'm ten people and no one all at once. I show different sides of myself to different groups of people.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come