One day you wake up and you realize something, you see something in a way that you never saw it before, and boom, epiphany. Something is different forever.
John Greeni wanted more time so we could fall in love.
John GreenTags: augustus-waters
Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands.
John GreenTags: john-green
I just want to stay away from people and read books.
John GreenTags: books-reading john-green
They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self-actualized.
John GreenWe idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
John GreenThat's pretty amazing, the countries thing," I said.
"Yeah, everybody's got a talent. I can memorize things. And you can...?"
"Urn, I know a lot of people's last words." It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate;
I had dying declarations.
"Example?"
"I like Henrik Ibsen's. He was a playwright." I knew a lot about Ibsen, but I'd never read any of his plays. I didn't
like reading
plays. I liked reading biographies.
"Yeah, I know who he was," said Chip.
"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him,
'You seem to be feeling better this morning/ and Ibsen looked at her and said, `On the contrary,' and then he
died."
Chip laughed. "That's morbid. But I like it.
I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book that became The Fault in Our Stars and to be completely honest with you, I am entirely happy that the story is no longer my problem and is now your problem.
John GreenHating the cool kids takes an awful lot of energy, and I'd given up on it a long time ago.
John GreenTags: coolness
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
John GreenTags: past present time death literature tense
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