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  • #1
    Erlend Loe
    “A human being weighing 70 kilograms contains among other things:
    -45 litres of water
    -Enough chalk to whiten a chicken pen
    -Enough phosphorus for 2,200 matches
    -Enough fat to make approximately 70 bars of soap
    -Enough iron to make a two inch nail
    -Enough carbon for 9,000 pencil points
    -A spoonful of magnesium
    I weigh more than 70 kilograms.

    And I remember a TV series called Cosmos. Carl Sagan would walk around on a set that was meant to look like space, speaking in large numbers. On one of the shows he sat in front of a tank full of all the substances human beings are made of. He stirred the tank with a stick wondering if he would be able to create life.
    He didn’t succeed.”
    Erlend Loe, Naïve. Super

  • #2
    John Green
    “We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants...I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. she walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. She knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.

    People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism?

    The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #3
    John Green
    “Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #4
    John Green
    “My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there's no one I'd rather have..." I started crying. "Okay, how not to cry. How am I-okay. Okay."

    I took a few deep breaths and went back to the page. "I can't talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a Bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #5
    John Green
    “I want more numbers that I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #6
    John Green
    “Okay, he said after forever. Maybe okay will be our always.
    Okay, I said.”
    John Green

  • #7
    John Green
    “Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.

    'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa," he said.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #8
    John Green
    “I walked to his bedside table next. Infinite Mayhem. the ninth sequel to The Prince of Dawn, lay atop the table next to his reading lamp, the corner of page 138 turned down. He'd never made it to the end of the book. 'Spoiler alert: Mayhem survives,' I said out loud to him, just in case he could hear me.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #9
    John Green
    “Okay Okay”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #10
    John Green
    “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.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #11
    John Green
    “You're always such a disappointment, Augustus. Couldn't you have at least gotten orange tomatoes?”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars



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