Manuel Camacho

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“- ¿Por qué somos incapaces de reconocer a los genios?- pregunté.
- Porque son diferentes. Los seres humanos normales no quieren que otros se salgan del guión. Somos una civilización de ovejitas blancas que nos seguimos unas a otras rumbo al precipicio. Y de vez en cuando surge una ovejita negra, o roja, o rosa que dice: "¡Eyyy, no es hacia allí, es para el otro lado!" Y todas las ovejitas blancas no escuchan y lo atropellan y maltratan.”
― Benito Taibo, Persona normal

“The pathetic thing I wanted to say to him on the phone – but didn’t – was this: When you're a little kid, you have something. Maybe it's a blanket or a stuffed animal or whatever. For me, it was this stuffed prairie dog that I got one Christmas when I was like three. I don't even know where they found a stuffed prairie dog, but whatever, it sat up on its hind legs and I called him Marvin, and I dragged Marvin around by his prairie dog ears until I was about ten.

And then at some point, it was nothing personal against Marvin, but he started spending more time in the closet with my other toys, and then more time, until finally Marvin became a full-time resident of the closet.

But for many years afterward, sometimes I would get Marvin out of the closet and just hang out with him for a while – not for me, but for Marvin. I realized it was crazy, but I still did it.

And the thing I wanted to say to Tiny is that sometimes, I feel like his Marvin.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green