I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.
John GreenWho would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?
John GreenI said nothingโI hadnโt known Marya, and anyway, โlistening quietlyโ was my general social strategy
John GreenI still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled
John GreenPeople thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming, and as he lay on the solid, uneven ground with Hassan pressing too hard on his forehead, Colin Singleton's distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
John Green