814 Quotes About John-green

And finally it was too much. I could not talk myself down from the feeling, and the feeling became unbearable.

I don't want to be part of an us that makes a them of the world's most vulnerable people

Bei dieser Passage gibt es nur ein einziges Problem: Es stimmt nicht. »Der Mensch« hat keineswegs den Atem angehalten angesichts dieses Kontinents, denn wenn wir uns »den Menschen« als die gesamte Menschheit vorstellen, dann hat »der Mensch« die Gegend schon gekannt, ja bereits seit Zehntausenden von Jahren bewohnt. Die Verwendung von »der Mensch« verrät uns am Ende viel darüber, wen genau der Erzähler als Person anerkennt und von welchem Standpunkt die Geschichte erzählt wird.

I remembered that morning, and I felt something twist at my gut in the remembering of it.

Maybe she deserved to be forgotten. But at any rate, I couldn't forget her.

Maybe she had sat here in the cacophonous darkness and felt some kind of desperation take her over, and maybe she found it impossible to unthink the thought of death. I could imagine that, of course.

And I had never quite thought of her that way, not really; it was a failure of all my previous imaginings.

Someone who—because no one thought she was a person—had no one to really talk to.

The clock was always punishing, but feeling like I was closer to unraveling the knots made time seem to stop entirely.