Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.
John GreenWe don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
John GreenHe loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
John GreenHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
John GreenI could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said.
John GreenWhat can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.
John Green