If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?
John GreenI worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at.
John GreenWhether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.
John Green