Some infinities are larger than other infinities.
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| — | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green |
…Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
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| — | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green |
Even with our ability to look back on that war there’s no way to know for certain what was lost and what was saved. But that’s how it is. History’s a bitch when you’re in the middle of it.
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| — | The Future of Us | Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler |
The first thing to say is that it doesn’t matter what anyone says, ever…
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| — | One Day | David Nicholls |
I was propelled into a world that had been imagined and completed without my participation, entirely alien but still somehow recognisable.
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| — | Fever Pitch | Nick Hornby |
If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you’re supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything.
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| — | Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger |
To seventh-century Arabia, Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddha held out hope that suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers—the outcasts—had cause for hope.
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| — | Looking for Alaska | John Green |
