You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
John GreenI stand in this parking lot, realizing that Iโve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the heroโs errand, because not following her is the hardest thing Iโve ever done.
John GreenAlso, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.
John GreenI feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.
John GreenThe Zโs will kill us all, and then the Zโs will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Carolineโs wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartesโs musings, or Michelangeloโs sculptures. And that is really only the sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.
John Green