Turtles All the Way Down

by John Green

And we’re such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name.

I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was watching a movie about my life instead of living it.

Everyone always celebrates the easy attractiveness of green or blue eyes, but there was a depth to Davis’s brown eyes that you just don’t get from lighter colors, and the way he looked at me made me feel like there was something worthwhile in the brown of my eyes, too.

Madness, in my admittedly limited experience, is accompanied by no superpowers;

Let’s continue this awkward silence in person.

and I was a competent standardized test taker.

“Old friends make the best girlfriends.

It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in.

“Maybe you’re gonna get superpowers from his microbes. She was a normal girl until she kissed a billionaire and became . . . MICROBIANCA, Queen of the Microbes.” I just looked at her. “I’m sorry, is that not helpful?”

omg I love Daisy

“Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.” “That is precisely how I feel about my virginity,”

Omfg

You’re both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You’re the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You’re the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody’s something, but you are also your you.