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John Green Quotes: 177
The Fault in Our StarsAs he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
The Fault in Our StarsMy thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
The Fault in Our StarsSometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
The Fault in Our StarsYou don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
The Fault in Our StarsSome infinities are bigger than other infinities.
Looking for AlaskaThe only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
The Fault in Our StarsWhat a slut time is. She screws everybody.
The Fault in Our StarsThe marks humans leave are too often scars.
An Abundance of KatherinesBooks are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
The Fault in Our StarsOh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
Looking for AlaskaThomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.
Looking for AlaskaSo I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
The Fault in Our StarsSome people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them,"I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
The Fault in Our StarsThe world is not a wish-granting factory.
You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
An Abundance of KatherinesWhat is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
Paper TownsWhat a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
Looking for AlaskaImagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
The Fault in Our StarsGrief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
Looking for AlaskaWhen I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
Paper TownsThat's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.
The Fault in Our StarsBooks so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
Looking for AlaskaWhat the hell is that?"I laughed."It's my fox hat." "Your fox hat?" "Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat." "Why are you wearing your fox hat?"I asked."Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.
Paper TownsI'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
Paper TownsIt is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
The Fault in Our StarsWithout pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
Looking for AlaskaThey love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
The Fault in Our StarsSome tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.
The Fault in Our StarsIt's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
Paper TownsThe town was paper, but the memories were not.
The Fault in Our StarsMaybe 'okay' will be our 'always
Looking for AlaskaI may die young, but at least I'll die smart.
Looking for AlaskaIt always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
Paper TownsIf you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
The Fault in Our StarsI believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?
Will Grayson, Will GraysonSome people have lives; some people have music.
The Fault in Our StarsThat’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
Looking for AlaskaWhat you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
The Fault in Our StarsYou realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
Looking for AlaskaFrancois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps."That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.
The Fault in Our StarsYou are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
The Fault in Our StarsI'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?
The Fault in Our StarsBecause you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
Will Grayson, Will GraysonMaybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.
Looking for AlaskaIt's not because I want to make out with her."Hold on."He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit
Looking for AlaskaAt some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.
An Abundance of KatherinesYou don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
The Fault in Our StarsSometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal
The Fault in Our StarsYou gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.
Paper TownsI didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
The Fault in Our StarsBut it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
Paper TownsWhen did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
The Fault in Our StarsThe pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.
The Fault in Our StarsWhenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
Will Grayson, Will GraysonYou like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
Looking for AlaskaHave you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.
The Fault in Our StarsHeadline?"he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home,'"I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'"he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'"I said.
Paper TownsTalking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
The Fault in Our StarsI’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.
Looking for AlaskaAnd then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.
The Fault in Our StarsBut I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
Paper TownsIt is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
Looking for AlaskaI am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.
Looking for AlaskaSometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
Will Grayson, Will GraysonWhen things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.
The Fault in Our StarsWhat else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
An Abundance of KatherinesI figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
Looking for AlaskaI found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!"And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
Looking for AlaskaI just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.
Looking for AlaskaThat didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
Looking for AlaskaSometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.
The Fault in Our Starsthere is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
The Fault in Our StarsYou have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
The Fault in Our StarsThe real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
The Fault in Our StarsI told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)
Paper TownsAs long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.
The Fault in Our StarsI'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.
Looking for AlaskaY'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
Looking for AlaskaWe need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
The Fault in Our StarsLook, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.
Paper TownsNothing ever happens like you imagine it will
Looking for AlaskaI hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.
Looking for AlaskaThe Colonel led all the cheers.Cornbread!"he screamed.CHICKEN!"the crowd responded.Rice!"PEAS!"And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs."Hip Hip Hip Hooray!"the Colonel cried.YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!
An Abundance of KatherinesHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
Looking for AlaskaPeople, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
Looking for AlaskaYou spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
The Fault in Our StarsI’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.
The Fault in Our StarsYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.
Paper TownsPoetry is just so emo."he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]
The Fault in Our StarsBecause there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
Looking for AlaskaShe's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.
Looking for AlaskaAt some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.
The Fault in Our StarsAugustus,"I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do,"he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best,"I told him."I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel,"he answered.
Looking for AlaskaWe were kissing.I thought: This is good.I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all.I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.Suddenly she laughed and pulled away from me. She wiggled a hand out of her sleeping bag and wiped her face. "You slobbered on my nose,"she said, and laughed
Looking for AlaskaI felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
The Fault in Our StarsAnd 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.
An Abundance of KatherinesWell, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES FAG, which, aside from being a grammatical nightmare, is absolutely ridiculous. So I'm changing it to 'God Hates Baguettes.' It's tough to disagree with that. Everybody hates baguettes.
The Fault in Our StarsSometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?
The Fault in Our StarsIf you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
The Fault in Our StarsSo dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost
Paper TownsDude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis.
The Fault in Our StarsI hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
The Fault in Our StarsI will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
Looking for AlaskaWhat the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.
The Fault in Our StarsI'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.
Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page,"Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.
Looking for AlaskaI'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
An Abundance of KatherinesDo you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
Looking for AlaskaWhy don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.
Looking for AlaskaThere comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.
The Fault in Our StarsNeither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.
Let It SnowI always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
Looking for AlaskaI came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..
The Fault in Our StarsLove is keeping the promise anyway.
An Abundance of KatherinesDo you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?
Looking for AlaskaYou can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.
Paper TownsI mean, we're ninjas." "Well maybe you're a ninja,"I said"You're just a really loud, awkward ninja,"Margo said, "but we are both ninjas.
Looking for AlaskaPrincipled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake"hate.
An Abundance of KatherinesThe feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.
Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)
Paper TownsGetting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds,"I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.
Paper TownsAs far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
Paper TownsI don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.
The Fault in Our StarsI went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.
The Fault in Our StarsI liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.
Paper TownsWhat about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows,"she says.
The Fault in Our StarsWe were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?
The Fault in Our StarsThe food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.
Looking for AlaskaRight, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.
Paper TownsLife has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
An Abundance of KatherinesI just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.
Looking for AlaskaIt is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge
The Fault in Our StarsHe flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot,"I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish,"he answered, still kissing me. I laughed."I have an Augustus Waters fetish,"I explained.
The Fault in Our StarsI didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
The Fault in Our StarsMaybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
Paper TownsImagine others complexly.
The Fault in Our StarsHe specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace...
Paper TownsI always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.
I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.
Looking for AlaskaI must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it?
Looking for AlaskaWe need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.
An Abundance of KatherinesBooks are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.
Paper TownsWas it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?
The Fault in Our StarsThe thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess.
Looking for AlaskaIt was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
Will Grayson, Will GraysonI just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-
Will Grayson, Will GraysonLong week. Long month. Long life.
Paper Townspg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!
When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.
An Abundance of KatherinesUh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage. Like you always say, kafir, everything ends in breakup, divorce, or death. I want to narrow my misery options to divorce or death - that's all.
Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.
The Fault in Our StarsThere is no try. There is only do.
Looking for AlaskaYou can't just make me different and then leave
Paper TownsYou know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.
Looking for AlaskaI was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.
We all romanticize the people we adore.
The Fault in Our StarsAnd then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains.
The Fault in Our StarsWitness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
Looking for AlaskaThe only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r
The Fault in Our StarsI don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life.
If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.
Paper TownsBen, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.
Will Grayson, Will Graysonhe is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.