#oh

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me. ↗

— John Green

#hazel-grace #john-green #the-fault-in-our-stars #grace

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #support-group #tfios #state

When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#winnie-the-pooh #wonder

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. ↗

— John Green

#looking-for-alaska #pudge #thought

And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#nicholas-sparks #feeling

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#crime

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny? ↗

— Jim Butcher

#destiny #johnnie-marcone #free

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think ↗

— Tom Schulman

#john-keating #tom-schulman #authority

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #tfios #ignorance

Ideology is the science of idiots. ↗

— John Adams

#john-adams #politics #science