You canโt know, sweetie, because youโve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
John GreenThe food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.
John GreenDo you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.
John GreenAnd I don't really have anyone upon whom I want to rain down my wrath," I said, because in truth I didn't. I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies. Example: Historically, Germany has had more enemies than Luxembourg, Margo Roth Spiegelman was Germany. And Great Britain. And the United States. And czarist Russia. Me, I'm Luxembourg. Just sitting around, tending sheep, and yodeling.
John GreenAdult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Childrenโs librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? Iโll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.
John Green