Daniel

“hope is the correct response to the strange, often terrifying miracle of consciousness. Hope is not easy or cheap. It is true.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Imagine others complexly.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
― Richard Siken

“Whenever someone does something nice for me, I feel intensely aware of how strange and sad it is to know someone.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead