The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a... - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess."
More quotes by John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal"
"Love is keeping the promise anyway."
"I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?"
"Sometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?"