4 Quotes by John Green about disease
- Author John Green
-
Quote
Wounded. Like Caroline Mathers had been a bomb and when she blew up everyone around her was left with embedded shrapnel.
- Tags
- Share
- Author John Green
-
Quote
Meningitis, like the virus that caused it, wasn't a metaphor or a narrative device. It was just a disease.But we are hardwired to look for patterns, to make constellations from the stars. There must be some logic to the narrative, some reason for the misery.
- Tags
- Share
- Author John Green
-
Quote
I would always be like this, always have this within me. There was no beating it. I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me. My self and the disease were knotted together for life.
- Tags
- Share
- Author John Green
-
Quote
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
- Tags
- Share