..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was twoโthis girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.
John GreenIn the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cuteโ how dismissive it is, how itโs the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, โFeel Bad About Yourself.
John Green