“Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, After Death, Love, Love After Death
“After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out - but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”— John Green, Chip, amazon.comTagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, Love After Death, Pain, Injustice Of Death
“The glittering ambiguity of a girl’s smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question but never gives it. The question, the one we’ve all been asking since girls stopped being gross, the question that is too simple to be uncomplicated: Does she like me or like me?”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Female Mind
“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.comTagged: Taking Chances, Do It, Going For It, Adventurous
“You can't just make me different and leave.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Female Mind, Leaving
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Ending, humanity, Questions, Life Questioning, Understanding Life
“But even in the dark, I could see her eyes--fierce emeralds. She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Love, Lust, Female Body, Female Beauty, Love & Relationships
“[I was] feeling—probably for the first time in my life—the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: unknown, Embracing The Unknown, Life, Living On The Edge, Excitement Of Life
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Afterlife, After Death, End Of Life, Trying To Understand, Trying To Understand Death
“That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape--the world or the end of it?”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.comTagged: humanity, Being human, Understanding Life, Trying To Understand, Trying To Understand Death
“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Death, Ending, End Of Life, Understanding Death, Trying To Understand
“[She is] a woman so strong she burns heaven and drenches hell.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Woman, My Favorites, Understanding The Opposite Sex, female, Being A Female
“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must…”— John Green, Old Man, amazon.comTagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“Memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“We are all going.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“We are driving through the place that she could not drive through, passing onto asphalt she never saw, and we are not dead. We are not dead! We are breathing and we are crying and now slowing down and moving back into the right lane.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“Because I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me.”— John Green, Chip, amazon.comTagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, Love After Death, Pain, Injustice Of Death
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her a lot like that, as something's meal. What was her—green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs—would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. I thought about the slow process…”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“Maybe she was just matter, and matter gets recycled. But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death