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"I need more essay collections by John Green, I know I will feel the loss and absence in my bones the moment I finish this amazing book. It's just so rich, humane, and I get to learn and understand so much our kind, our coming, and the nature of humanity. The perseverance, the strength, the brutality and all the depravity, that makes us, us. Such a gem of a collection, there's always something to take from each essay." — Jan 29, 2026 09:51PM
"I need more essay collections by John Green, I know I will feel the loss and absence in my bones the moment I finish this amazing book. It's just so rich, humane, and I get to learn and understand so much our kind, our coming, and the nature of humanity. The perseverance, the strength, the brutality and all the depravity, that makes us, us. Such a gem of a collection, there's always something to take from each essay." — Jan 29, 2026 09:51PM
“I stay seated, watch them turn and turn and turn before the fire, which never ceases to burn. I bring his still smoking cigarette to my lips. Drink his whisky, which tastes like an actual bonfire by the North Sea. Watch their souls entangle like squid tentacles. I am horrified. I am mesmerized. I am embarrassed in ways I cannot explain. I am also increasingly drunk and can't stop looking. At the way he looks at her. The way she looks at him. I drink the bonfire he pours and pours for me.”
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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“You'll Never Walk Alone' is cheesy but not wrong. The song doesn't claim that the world is just a happy place. It just asks us to walk on with hopes in our hearts. And like Louis in the Carousel, even if you don't really believe in the golden sky or the sweet silver song of the lark when you start singing, you believe it a little more when you finish.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“(And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)”
― Lie With Me
― Lie With Me
“Well, I read that when you give a gift to someone who is striving to achieve their dreams, you have to give them the most cherished thing you have. Some days, that person who is chasing their dreams will not be able to find the strength to keep going. It will be bitter and painful, and they will have to weigh up their dreams and reality to make a choice. When that happens, the person gifted with the most precious thing will be able to fight on a little more. It apparently helps them to feel they are not alone. So, I'm giving you this book because I want you to fight for your dream.'"
- Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3), p. 313”
― Before Your Memory Fades
- Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3), p. 313”
― Before Your Memory Fades
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