I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.
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 GreenDestiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.
John GreenIt's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
John GreenYou 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.
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