“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. ”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It's so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? Those are important questions, I guess. But they're not that important. You know what's important? Who would you die for? Who do you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you? Whose drunken nose would you pick?!”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice to say 'bad-bye' or 'awful-bye' or 'couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye.' every time you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. well, i don't believe in that. i believe against that.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“i have a friend request from some stranger on facebook and i delete it without looking at the profile because that doesn't seem natural. 'cause friendship should not be as easy as that. it's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. or books. omg... U like the outsiders 2... it's like we're the same person! no we're not. it's like we have the same english teacher. there's a difference.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. [But] I do pick you. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“i think the idea of a 'mental health day' is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health. the idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four hours is kind of like saying heart disease can be cured if you eat the right breakfast cereal. mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'i don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless we choose to bring a gun to school or ruin the morning announcements with a suicide.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter. ”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“Dear Jane,
Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes.
Yours,
Will Grayson”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
“i feel like my life is so scattered right now. like it’s all these small pieces of paper and someone’s turned on the fan. but talking to you makes me feel like the fan’s been turned off for a little bit. like things could actually make sense. you completely unscatter me, and i appreciate that so much.”
― John Green, quote from Will ti presento Will
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“If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.”
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“the child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to answer. There is no past.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from Cities of the Plain
“What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
― Jim Butcher, quote from White Night
“Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed.”
― John Sandford, quote from Rules of Prey
“Posthuman. It was a word that came up in the media every five or six years, and it meant different things every time. Neural regrowth hormone? Posthuman. Sex robots with inbuilt pseudo intelligence? Posthuman. Self-optimizing network routing? Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all he’d ever thought it really meant was that the people using it had a limited imagination about what exactly humans were capable of.”
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