DAY 23: *FAVORITE AUTHOR*
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE John Green. He is by far, my favorite author. I've read and own all his books, and can probably quote Paper Towns from memory.
To prove how awesome Mr. Green is, here is a collection of 19 of his most profound quotes, courtesy of buzzfeed.com and yours truly (since they apparently left out the best Looking for Alaska quote and Will Grayson Will Grayson from this list):
- "The marks humans leave are too often scars." -The Fault In Our Stars
- "It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world." -Paper Towns
- "What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"-An Abundance of Katherines
- "Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be." -Looking for Alaska
- "If you don't image, nothing ever happens at all." -Paper Towns
- "As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." -The Fault In Our Starts
- "What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person." -Paper Towns
- "You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened." -An Abundance of Katherines
- "At some point, you just pull off the band-aid, and it hurst, but then it's over and you're relieved." -Looking for Alaska
- "Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you." -The Fault In Our Stars
- "We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken." -Looking for Alaska
- "He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment-because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it." -An Abundance of Katherines
- "I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane." -Looking for Alaska
- "That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt." -The Fault In Our Starts
- "You can love someone so much...But you can never love someone as much as you miss them." -An Abundance of Katherines
- "That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of tast." -Paper Towns
- "My thoughts are starts I cannot fathom into constellations." -The Fault In Our Stars
- "I can't tell you how thankful I am for out little infinity." -The Fault In Our Stars
- "I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel." -Paper Towns
- "Maybe okay will be our always." -The Fault In Our Stars
- "You can like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot." -Wil Grayson, Will Grayson
- "Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters." -Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- "Some people have lives; some people have music." -Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost-the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed." -Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- "We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love." -Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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