April May Quotes

“Even on this most terrible days, even when the worst of us are all we can think of, I am proud to be a human.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“I don't think any of us are blameless when we all, more and more often, see ourselves not as members of a culture but as weapons in a war.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Bring People together and promote a simple change and a better world.”
― 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

“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

“It's weird to talk about these things as if they are fact since they were in a dream, but the fact that everyone experienced it in precisely the same way made it feel concrete. What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way? The Dream, in that sense, was very, very real.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Just working through what other people had done gave me a feeling that this was all actually worth it. When you get stuck fighting small battles, it makes you small. Hopping from cable news show to cable news show to discuss controversy after controversy had made me small. I thought only about the fight, not why I was fighting.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“The clattering of humanity mixed in all its randomness was as relaxing to me as crickets chirping beside a rushing brook.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now." She did not say this as something I should be proud of, more something that I had to live with. The dart hit its mark.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“...He kept reading to me until well after I was asleep.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing