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The Venn Diagram of guys who don't like smart girls and guys you don't want to date is a circle.
There is no them, there are only facets of us.
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.
"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 that book."
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
Maybe all the strings inside him broke.
Paper Towns (2008)
I may not have facts on my side, Hank, but I still think I'm right. That's the American way.
I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.
Paper Towns (2008)
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
Looking for Alaska (2005)
"'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.'"
Looking for Alaska (2005)
You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
Paper Towns (2008)
"Love is the most common miracle"
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)
If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
"Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large."
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)
"This is why we call people exes, I guess -- because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. It's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. It's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. The X is a diagram of two paths."
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)
When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals
It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don't care if that mark is a scar.
[We] had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.
Looking for Alaska (2005)
"The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture."
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.
Paper Towns (2008)