#august

Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#artillery #august #back #brigade #colleagues

I can't go to Amsterdam. One of my doctors thinks it's a bad idea." He was quiet for a second. "God," he said. "I should've just paid for it myself. Should've just taken you straight from the Funky Bones to Amsterdam." "But then I would've had a probably fatal episode of deoxygenation in Amsterdam, and my body would have been shipped home in the cargo hold of an airplane," I said. "Well, yeah," he said. "But before that, my grand romantic gesture would have totally gotten me laid." I laughed pretty hard, hard enought that I felt where the chest tube had been. "You laugh because it's true," he said. I laughed again. "It's true, isn't it!" "Probably not," I said, and then after a moment added, "although you never know. ↗

— John Green

#funny #hazel-grace-lancaster #funny

I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879. ↗

— Carl Spitteler

#i #left #petersburg #stayed #until

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that. ↗

— John Green

#green #hero #heroism #john #waters

He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish," he answered, still kissing me. I laughed. "I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained. ↗

— John Green

#funny #hazel-grace-lancaster #funny

I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today. ↗

— John Green

#augustus #gus #hazel #hazel-grace #the-fault-in-our-stars

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she like hers. ↗

— John Green

#hazel-grace-lancaster #love #love

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#after #august #changes #citing #commission

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? ↗

— Marguerite Young

#been #bible #experimental #influenced #saint

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. ↗

— John Green

#hazel #heartbreak #privilege #heart