You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Langu... - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."
"Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin."
"And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone."
"Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them,"I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway."
"The marks humans leave are too often scars."