I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.
John GreenBy saying you donโt care if the world falls apart, in some small way youโre saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.
John GreenThe ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.
John GreenThat's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.
John Green