Teaser Tuesday: Paper Towns by John Green

Paper Towns by John Green

“Tonight we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first… but before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.”

“Every moment of your life is lived for the future–you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”

Teaser Tuesday: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

If the future is forever, then eventually it will swallow us all up… even Socrates might be forgotten. The future will erase everything–there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion.

There are stories. Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes other people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. And that infinitesimal change ripples outward–ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter.

Teaser Tuesday: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

“Did you know that there is a word for a person who is not a conjoined twin? The word is Singleton.”

You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you miss them.

Teaser Tuesday: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

…all romantic relationships end in either (1) breakup (2) divorce or (3) death.

He thought of Democritus: “Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.”