Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
John GreenIt's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.
John GreenGetting a lifeโ is something only a complete idiot could believe. Like you can just drive to a store and get a life. See it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, โWow, I look much happier โ I think this is the life I need to get!โ, take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. If getting a life was that easy, weโd be one blissed-out race.
John GreenShame about how weโre gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. Itโs the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is โsodomyโโ.
John GreenIf you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
John Green