The world is not a wish-granting factory. - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"The world is not a wish-granting factory."
"The world is not a wish-granting factory."
"Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."
"Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."
"there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars"
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you."