You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
John GreenI just want you to be happy. If thatโs with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
John GreenThe Zโs will kill us all, and then the Zโs will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Carolineโs wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartesโs musings, or Michelangeloโs sculptures. And that is really only the sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.
John Green