Double On-Call and Other Stories Quotes

“Admittedly, I am only seventeen now. But some years are longer than others.”
― John Green, Double On-Call and Other Stories

“I don't know the word for the feeling if there is one, but it's that feeling you get - or I hope you get it, anyway - when you realize the smallness of you, and the largeness of Everything Else. I'm not saying God necessarily. I'm saying you're outside at night and it's raining and you don't have an umbrella and you're running to get inside but then you stop and maybe you hold your hands palms up and feel the rain pound against your fingerprints and soak through your clothes and your wet hair against your neck and you realize how amazing it is while the thunder cracks.”
― John Green, Double On-Call and Other Stories

“Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.”
― John Green, Double On-Call and Other Stories

“The chaplain has a good life, an easy life. He is well educated, modestly
well-to-do, and awkwardly handsome. He has faced no particularly compelling
struggle, aside from frequently being dumped by women he wished to marry. His
friends and family are in good health. And, sometimes, when one is not blessed
with crisis, one must manufacture it.”
― John Green, Double On-Call and Other Stories

“Like, you're never alone here. But also, you're never with people. It's possible this isn't a hospital-specific problem, come to think of it.”
― John Green, Double On-Call and Other Stories

“Children's hospitals are not designed for teenagers.”
― John Green, Double On-Call and Other Stories