Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder
John GreenBut I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.
John GreenI worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at.
John GreenAnd then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.
John GreenEven if itโs a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward โever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter โmaybe less than a lot, but always more than none.
John Green