"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."
John GreenAugustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I wonโt be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, becauseโlike all real love storiesโit will die with us, as it should.
John GreenWe're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
John GreenYou have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
John Green