You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.
John GreenWe're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
John GreenI tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.
John GreenIt seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.
John GreenYou're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
John Green