The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:
'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.
Stichwörter: humor john-green the-fault-in-our-stars augustus-waters hazel-grace
I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.
John GreenStichwörter: hazel gus the-fault-in-our-stars augustus hazel-grace aia
its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the power to do its killing.
John GreenStichwörter: augustus-waters hazel-grace
After I finished, there was quite a long period of silence as I watched a smile spread all the way across Augustus’s face—not the little crooked smile of the boy trying to be sexy while he stared at me, but his real smile, too big for his face. “Goddamn,” Augustus said quietly. “Aren’t you something else.
John GreenStichwörter: augustus hazel-grace
You’re joining us for dinner, I hope?” asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy.
“I guess?” I said. “I have to be home by ten. Also I don’t, um, eat meat?”
“No problem. We’ll vegetarianize some,” she said.
“Animals are just too cute?” Gus asked.
“I want to minimize the number of deaths I am responsible for,” I said.
Gus opened his mouth to respond but then stopped himself.
Stichwörter: vegetarianism hazel-grace
and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn't slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.
John GreenStichwörter: consciousness pain death sickness hazel-grace
According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art and whatever else, which is, utter horseshit: The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
Maslow's pyramid seemed to imply I was less human than other people, and most people seemed to agree with him.
Stichwörter: sickness needs hazel-grace maslow
I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occured to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
John GreenStichwörter: dreams desire hazel-grace
Omnia Cellula e Cellula
John GreenStichwörter: gus the-fault-in-our-stars an-imperial-affliction augustus-waters hazel-grace
Our infinity is bigger than other infinities.
John GreenStichwörter: hazel-grace
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