Em > Em's Quotes

“Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“I should love him more, like he’s my favorite, which is hard to do, because he was my only brother, and already my favorite”
― Jason Reynolds

“Let him spend every night in the dirt if it meant getting his mornings with her.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: Love story

“I imagine moths, having no artificial light toward which to fly, turn back to the moon.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“You can do something about abandonment. You can construct a stronger independent self, for instance, or build a broader network of meaningful relationships so your psychological well-being isn't wholly reliant upon one person. But you, as an individual, can't do much about the Canada goose.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I never excelled academically, and took some pride in “not fulfilling my potential,” in part because I was terrified that if I tried my hardest, the world would lead I didn’t have that much potential.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I never excelled academically, and took some pride in “not fulfilling my potential” in part because I was afraid that if I tried my hardest, the world would learn I didn’t have much that much potential.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Perhaps all of this is done in the hopes that we won’t notice just how quickly everything is changing”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Driving alone at night is heartbreak without the agony”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“But I think that way of imagining art might make individuals too important”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I can feel the pain in my jaw, but in a way that feels survivable as things only can once you’ve survived them”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“My shitty gay heart did a backflip in my chest”
― Kayla Cottingham, This Delicious Death

“I often wonder what it must have been like for my great-grandfather, having trained as a doctor, to be unable to save his own son from disease. We are powerfully enough to light the world at night, to artificially refrigerate food, to leave Earth’s atmosphere and orbit it from outer space. But we cannot save those we love from suffering. This is the story of human history as I understand it— the story of an organism that can do so much, but cannot do what it most wants.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“there is nothing permanent or unalterable about health inequities”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Looking at history through any single lens causes distortions, because history is too complex for any one way of looking to suffice.”
― John Green

“To inspire is to breath in; to expire is to breath breathe all the way out”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection