I know,"he said."I know. Apparently the world is not a wish granting factory.
John GreenTiny and I are talking again… but there's nothing inside our words. Honestly, talking to him is worse than not. Talking to him makes me feel like I'm drowning in lukewarm water.
John GreenThat novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.
John GreenI'm a grenade.
I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you; you're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay?
We stared at the house for a while. The weird thing about houses is that they almost look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.
John GreenHe could just never see anything coming. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him inevitable yet invisible
John Greenfunny thing, talking to ghosts," he said. "You can't tell if you're making up their answers or if they are really talking to you.
John GreenOne of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: "Do you like anyone right now?", that's not the question you're asking. The question you're like is do you like ME right now.
John GreenYou know that part in An Imperial Affliction when Anna's walking across the football field to go to PE or whatever and she falls and goes face first into the grass and that's when she knows that the cancer is back and in her nervous system and she can't get up and her face is like an inch from the football -field grass and she's just stuck there looking at this grass up close, noticing the way the light hits it and...I don't remember the line but it's something like Anna having the Whitmanesque revelation that the definition of humannness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation or whatever. You know that part?
John GreenFormerly full of potential. Currently full of shit.
John GreenTags: humor
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