For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.
John GreenFrankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.
John GreenVideogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
John GreenThat's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.
John GreenThe marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you'll think "they'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.
John Green