Turtles All the Way Down

by John Green

The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.

Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice in the matter.

We are about to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.”

“Whether it hurts is kind of irrelevant.” “That’s a pretty good life motto,” he said.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

Our hearts were broken in the same places. That’s something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself.

To be alive is to be missing.

You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.