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“And I think about the many broad seas that have roared between me and the past - seas of neglect, seas of time, seas of death. I’ll never again speak to many of the people who loved me into this moment, just as you will never speak to many of the people who loved you into your now. So we raise a glass to them - and hope that perhaps somewhere, they are raising a glass to us”

john green really explained marginal utility in this last chapter, and as someone taking econ, I appreciate that. also, "we were the sixth best Academic Decathlon team in the nation, we were getting just the right amount of utility out of our Zimas, and we loved each other. Rivers keep going, and we keep going, and there is no way back to the roof of that hotel. But the memory still holds me together” (94)

this last chapter on "canada geese" really led me to write a whole journal entry on his reflections, and I appreciate John Green for that

I just realized that the last two John Green books came out in times of my life when I could really use the support, and while that's completely coincidental, that only adds to my reasoning that he's my favorite author

John Green writing a chapter on a quote from The Great Gatsby really has me about to drop my econ textbook and run to the library to read Gatsby for the first time lmao

“We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here." 🥺🥺