Turtles All the Way Down

by John Green

He accelerated with the gentle serenity of the Buddhist Zen master who knows nothing really needs to be done quickly, and his brakes whined like metal machine music, and I loved him.

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.”

Then you tell yourself to click a little x in the top corner of the thought to make it go away.

The spiral tightens, like that, forever.

She leaned into me, her shoulder against mine. I knew we were both thinking about my dad, but we had never been good at talking about him.

Charactee development

“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.” —TONI MORRISON

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” —CHARLOTTE BRONTË

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