No, I donโt think youโre gonna be single forever, and also I donโt understand your obsession with romantic love. There are other ways to have fulfilling relationships that can sustain you and make your life great and fun other than having a sexualized relationship. Itโs not the only kind of fulfilling human interaction. So, even if you are single forever, that doesnโt mean that youโve had some kind of failed life.
John GreenThe job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves
John GreenIncidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.
John GreenGetting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.
John GreenFrancois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.
John GreenThere was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure thatโs one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.
John Green