#fault

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #right

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible. ↗

— John Green

#fault #in #our #stars #cancer

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #sexuality

The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#fault #goodbyes #love #relationships #love

Strange what love taught you about your faults. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#love #love

I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#default #ever #few #goes #here

They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given. ↗

— George Clooney

#batman #best #big #buried #could

Sure, we thought the acres That we tilled were sacred, But how could we have known That wheat can haunt like ghosts ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#family-farm #poem #poetry #sherman-alexie #short-poems

A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, 'I have wonderful news!' and I was like, 'I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now,' and Gus said, 'This is wonderful news you want to hear,' and I asked him, 'Fine, what is it?' and he said, 'You are going to live a good long life filled with great and terrible moments you cannot even imagine yet! ↗

— John Green

#tfios #the-fault-in-our-stars #imagination

All that mattered in life, that someone loved you even though you had faults. ↗

— Pepper Phillips

#life #loved #life