Sarah Jane

“And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Whether it hurts is kind of irrelevant.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“We are about to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven.”
― William Wordsworth, The Prelude