Lauren Horst

“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. ... You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.”
― John Green

“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.”
― John Green