Jessica Mitchell

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
― Albert Einstien

“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.'
'Seventeen,' Gus corrected.
'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.
'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.
'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'
I was kind of crying by then.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The Non-ist

I am anti:
I descend when others clamber up:
Formally attired when others are not;
I un-imbibe while others sip
At parties, and bars and on vacation trips.

I'm abstract:
Formless in a world of representations,
Flat in a world of 3-D demonstrations,
Yet occupy space/time in Einstien's manifestations,
And invisible in a world of flamboyant excitations.

I am black and white in a land of a million hues,
Kaleidoscopic when the world's all greys and blues;
Monotone and taupish while all around is crimson,
But luminescent in the depths of prison.

I cannot be while others do,
And yet I will, when others fail to;
And when they've done all they could do,
I remain retired, sudued.”
― Woody Johnson

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars