“You can’t see the future coming — not the terrors, for sure, but you also can’t see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us.”
— John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed
“You can’t see the future coming — not the terrors, for sure, but you also can’t see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us.”
— John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed
“The world is what it is. But the world is also what you bring to it, and who you share it with.”
— John Green
“You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.”
— John Green
“I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.”
— John Green
Just started reading Everything is Tuberculosis and read these two sentences:
"We know how to live in a world without Tuberculosis. But we choose not to live in this world."
This line causes so much anger and pain inside me.
“I sometimes see people say that social change is impossible. But this is just not true. Social change is INEVITABLE. What isn’t inevitable is the timbre and shape of that social change, which we decide together.”
— John Green
John Green (b. 1977) American author
Paper Towns, Part 3 [Quentin] (2008)
More about this quote: wist.info/green-john/82574/
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I'd love to see these more. Sorry for the excess mentions and hashtags for visibility.
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Want some truly awesome news? The Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone opened last week! This is going to be a huge deal for the families in that country.
They had 13 deliveries and admitted 27 patients on the first day.
https://www.pih.org/article/opening-day-maternal-center-excellence-sierra-leone
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John Green (b. 1977) American author
The Fault in Our Stars, ch. 21 (2012)
More about this quote: wist.info/green-john/32880/
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.