Noah > Noah's Quotes

“There are two kinds of hot girls: Evil Hot Girls, and Hot Girls Who Are Also Sympathetic Good-Hearted People and Will Not Intentionally Destroy Your Life (HGWAASGHPAWNIDYL).”
― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

“Also, what the hell does "weird" even mean? I've just written it like five times and all of a sudden I'm staring at it and it doesn't even mean anything anymore. I just murdered the word "weird." Now it's just a bunch of dead letters. It's like there's all these dead bodies all over the page now.”
― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

“We're all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when all that we love and hate, all we believe in and fight for and kill for and die for is as meaningless as images projected onto Plexiglass.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“The young nihilists," Dad called us.
"What are nihilists?"
"Nihilists believe that nothing has any meaning. They believe in nothing."
"Yeah," said Earl. "I'm a nihilist."
"Me, too," I said.
"Good for you," Dad said, grinning. Then he stopped grinning and said, "Don't tell your mom.”
― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

“I check the time on my drug-dealer flip phone, the one I bought to call Daniela in another Chicago. It won't make calls in this world---I guess minutes aren't transferable across the multiverse.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“I think I might have a disorder where your emotions frequently malfunction and a lot of the time you're sitting there feeling something inappropriate. It should be called Emotional Moron Disorder”
― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

“DAD
Earl, would you agree that suffering in life is a, a relative notion - that for every life there is a different baseline, an equilibrium, below which one can be said to suffer?

EARL
I guess.

DAD
The primary insight being that one man's suffering is another man's joy.”
― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

“I thought I appreciated every moment, but sitting here in the cold, I know I took it all for granted. And how could I not? Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precariously and perfectly it all fits together.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Greg, we all like weirdos.”
― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

“It's difficult to judge beauty; I am not ready yet. Beauty is a riddle.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“the ass is a good-natured and useful creature.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“My writing is excellent. Perhaps I might call it a talent, I am quite the calligraphist. Let me write you something as a specimen.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Sometimes I catch myself trying to remember the last time I had meaningful physical contact with another person, just a hug or a heartfelt squeeze of my hand, and my heart twitches.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I know is, one minute I’m ticking along fine and life is sweet and I want for nothing, and the next I can’t wait to get away, I’m all over the place, slipping and sliding again.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“It was written by a doctor, but I've no idea whether it was accurate: the author claimed that blacking out wasn't simply a matter of forgetting what happened, but having no memories to forget in the first place. His theory was that you get into a state where you no longer make short term memories. And while you're there, in deepest black, you don't behave as you usually would, because you're simply reacting to the very last thing you think happened, because---since you aren't making memories---you might not actually know what the last thing to happen really was.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Parents don't care about anything but their children. They are the centre of the universe; they are all that really counts. Nobody else is important, no one else's suffering or joy matters, none of it is real.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“How much better life must have been for jealous drunks before emails and texts and mobile phones, before all this electronica and the traces it leaves.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I'm going to have to be strong, that's all there is to it.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“of all the things I'd either inherited or learned from my mother, the art of the lie was the most useful.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“Fears were learned, but they were also inherited. Natural Selection. Run from the lion. Jump away from the tiny, poisonous insects. They exist for a reason--we survive because of them.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“Impossible choices, and I had to start making them.
Little trades, like chips at your morality--strip away what you think you're supposed to do, what you're told you're supposed to do--and keep chipping in the dark, until all that's left is you.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“Was it possible to want to come face to face with someone while also wanting to wipe them from existence?”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“My future was in the hands of someone who didn't understand basic trigonometry. What if he got the angle wrong? Misjudged the timing? How could I trust someone who didn't understand the geometry of a right triangle?
This seat belt was strapped across my chest at a right angle. The branches and the car and the cliff--all angles. This was a goddamn real-world application.”
― Megan Miranda, The Safest Lies

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that monotone beep rings from high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think that you're the painter, but you're the canvas.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“And as I sat beneath florescent cylinders spewing aggressively artificial light, I thought about how we all believed ourselves to be the hero of some personal epic, when in fact we were basically identical organisms colonizing a vast and windowless room that smelled of Lysol and lard.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Of course I'd long known that I was playing host to a massive collection of parasitic organisms, but I didn't much like being reminded of it. By cell count, humans are approximately 50 percent microbial, meaning that half the cells that make you up are not yours at all. There are something like thousand times more microbes living in my particular biome than there are human beings on earth, and it often feels like I can feel them living and breeding and dying in and on me. I wiped my sweaty palms on my jeans and tried to control my breathing. Admittedly, I have some anxiety problems, but I would argue it isn't irrational to be concerned about the fact that you are a skin-encased bacterial colony.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Excessive abdominal noise is an uncommon, but not unprecedented, presenting symptoms of infection with the bacteria Clostridium difficile, which can be fatal.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolerated me. Why any of them did. Even I found myself annoying.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down