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“Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.”
― City of Lost Souls
― City of Lost Souls
“Gus: "It tastes like..."
Me: "Food."
Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?"
Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table."
Gus: "Nicely phrased."
Gus's father: "Our children are weird."
My dad: "Nicely phrased.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
Me: "Food."
Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?"
Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table."
Gus: "Nicely phrased."
Gus's father: "Our children are weird."
My dad: "Nicely phrased.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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