"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures." ~Jessamyn West

“…The culture of respectability, of being polite is a way to silence people.  There are some things that can’t be said politely, that can’t be said without being crude, without being honest and without cursing.  I’d rather speak of those things than be bothered by people trying to silence my language.” ~ Junot Díaz

"Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' 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

“…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.” ~ John Green

“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” ~ John Green

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.” ~ John Green

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.” ~ John Green

“Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.” ~ John Green

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” ~ John Green

“When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed." ~ John Green

“The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.” ~ John Green

“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.” ~ John Green

“The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.” ~ John Green

"Moving on to the mother country: the United Kingdom, which is the United Kingdom of Scotland and Great Britain. Great Britain is an island consisting of the 3 -- OW -- autonomous countries of Northern Ireland, Whales, and England. So, if you're in a pub in Wales and you say, 'Gee guys, I sure love it here in England!' they will punch you in the face. England is NOT a synonym for the United Kingdom." ~ Hank Green

"You see things and you say 'why?'. I dream of things that never were and I say 'why not?'"

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." ~ Carl Sagan

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

(Hank, I'm still working on quotes by you, don't worry!)