Turtles All the Way Down

by John Green

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.

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.”

The river was lousy with turtles.

But the things that make other people nervous have never scared me.

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” —WILLIAM JAMES

“Welcome to the future, Holmesy. It’s not about hacking computers anymore; it’s about hacking human souls.

But the world is also the stories we tell about it.