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~Yue~ [Starless Nights Will Cover Day] wrote: "And the things I do in geometry.c:
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AMAZING DRAWING.. Did you draw it?

“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

:) It's one of my favorites. I love how John Green can have hilarious quotes in a book that make you literally LOL and then also have the quotes that make you cry.

I love his baby. :)

I need to read Paper Towns :)

YES. You do.

“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout out into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.” the fault in our starts

Awww. That's an amazing quote. I'm not joking when I say that is the most romantic book I've ever read. And I loved it for the romance, and I'm a GUY. He's sooo good!

"Thomas Edison's last words were, 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I know it's somewhere, and I hope its beautiful."

"So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."

"Pain demands to be felt."

"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."

"The marks humans leave are too often scars."

“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.”

This comes like right after your last quote, and I love it...

"Thomas Edison's last words were, It's very beautiful over there. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

I so miss acting Looking for Alaska. I should do it again sometimes just for old times sake.

“She said, 'It's not life of death, the labyrinth.'
'Um, okay. So what is it?'
'Suffering,' she said. 'Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?...Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It'st the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”

“Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.”

“He- that's Simon Bolivar - 'was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness. Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!''

So what's the labyrinth?' I asked her...

That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape- the world or the end of it?”

I LOVE LOOKING FOR ALASKA!

"I sweep through the place like a cheetah and the tortilla chips are injured gazelles."

"'Yes', she says without turning around, her voice thick. "I'll write you, too.
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them."

Kiana wrote: ""He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so ma..."

That does not sound like any John Green book I've ever heard of. What is it?

Oh. Looking for Alaska. Sorry.

"It's almost as if our society values opinions more than it values knowledge."

Some great John Green quotes:

The job of reading is to use stories as a way in to seeing other people as we see ourselves, and when we do that we can look out at the world and see a giant, endless set of beautiful variations of pizzas – the whole world composed of billions of beautiful delicious pizzas

falkner beneath the stars

Supermegafoxyawesomehot. Favorite adjectives? Anyone?

hmm, luminescent sounds nice?

what video is this from?


“…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”

@Merideth SUPERMEGAFOXYAWESOMEHOT IS THE BEST ADJECTIVE IN THE WORLD. Also I like the word fuzzy. I just like saying it! Fuzzy! Fuzzy! Fuzzy..
.*realizes no one has posted on this thread in 4 months and feeling irrelevant* *and stupid*

Actually, three months.

I realise that there is a major lack of Hank on this thread so I'll firstly go with the obvious: "Dude, NO EDGE."

And a more recent one: "Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that."

Not to forget: "PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE ROBOT SACK OF KETCHUP PEE"

Amen.

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
-J.R.R. Tolien

'Without Pain, How Would We Know Joy? This is an old argument in the field of Thinking About Suffering, and it's stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries, but suffice to say that the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.' ~John Green

Falling in love is like falling asleep slowly and then all at once

Similar to the "mind is blind" quote, "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain

Oh my, this might become a long one...

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I'm the motherfucking fox,' Takumi whispered, both to himself and to me. 'No one can catch the fox.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

And can we just take a minute to appreciate the awesomeness of John Green; how he one minute can say something so insightful and beautiful, and then just.... yeah... It hurts because it's real and it hurts because it mattered