cœur

“you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague of smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Waters.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absoloutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Ruby, you did this to yourself.”
― Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom