adreamaday:
I’ll never get used to the sensation of
watching a person you thought to be
an unshakable foundation in your life
walk away.
The ground beneath your feet quivers
and all the little moments you shared
rise up from the splinters in the earth
and vanish.
What a cold and constant sting it is
to realize that chapters of your life
have come to close and exist solely
in the past.
I feel like this poem is a great companion to this excerpt by John Green from Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
“I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don’t scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it’s not.”
(Source: dreamsandashes)
The man I am in love with, I frequently told “I picked you, you idiot, and you picked me back.!” which, as many of you know, is a John Green Paper Towns quote that I take out of context to hold some sort of romantic and relationship value. [Continue below ‘read more’ for my TFiOS (spoiler!) link to it]
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I know it doesn’t feel this way all the time, but we get to choose what we care about and what we spend our resourses on. We choose what, or ideally whom, to lust after. We choose what to watch, what to like, what to build, how to spend the breaths that we’ve been allotted. And the fact that many of our choices are unconscious -“get that handbag,” “get that Starbucks,” “look at that Snookie,” - does not in any way make us less responsible for those choices.
—John Green
"When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."
— John Green (Looking For Alaska)
"In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even ‘lame’ is kind of lame. Saying ‘You’re lame’ is like saying ‘You walk with a limp.’
Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he’s done all right for himself."
— John Green
"I think about how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don’t scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it’s not."
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Yet again.
His latest youtube video:
“…And our biggest business of all is taking care of each other. I love Nerdfighteria because it’s a place for people who have felt on the outside looking in to be on the inside of something awesome and important.” … “Jeff Zucker, nerdfighteria may be nothing but a Youtube based community, but we are more real than all of your reality shows combined. “
-John Green
