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Turtles All the Way Down

“Wrenching and revelatory.” An instant #1 bestseller, the widely acclaimed Turtles All the Way Down is John Green's brilliant and shattering new novel. “A tender story about learning to cope when the world feels out of control.” –

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“It's not about hacking computers anymore, it's about hacking human souls.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: The internet, Social Media, Relatable

“If only I were as good at life as I am at the internet.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: The internet, Social Media, Relatable

“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Childhood, Nostalgia, Growing Up

“We're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, cease…”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, Terminology, Prefrontal Cortex, Thinking, language as art

“Your now is not your forever.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Literature, How To Think, Comforting

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Vision, Life, Love

“You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Deep Thoughts, Art, Stories

“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don't really get answers. You just get better questions.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: The Truth About Science, Science Fills You With Even More Wonder

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how and you become a person and why.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: First Loves, Why You Won't Forget You First Love, Loving Someone Deeply, Love Shows You That You Are Deserving

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: You Are Your Own, You Are Made Of Multitudes, You Are Contrasts

“Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Find Someone Who Sees You For You, True Connection

“Your now is not your forever.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: You Have To Keep Going, Keep Going, You Are Going To Survive

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how and you become a person and why.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: First Love, Loved, H4D-36

“The thing is, when you lose someone, you realize you'll eventually lose everyone.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Loss, Breakups, Death, H4D-35

“It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Perspective, World Views, H4D-29