Words That May Inspire You

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

"But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell." - Aza

"You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas." - Aza

"Imagine that candle, Aza, flickering from your breath but still there, always there." - Dr. Singh

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

"I'm not saying you're good or generous or kind or whatever. I'm just saying you're memorable."

"True terror isn't being scared; it's not having a choice in the matter." - Aza

"I've always wondered what he saw in that, in the split-apart sky." - Aza

"I'm not sure what to say," he said. "I'm ... not good at chitchat."
"Try saying what you're thinking," I said. "That's something I never ever do."

"But the sky isn't one thing. The sky is everything. And last night, it was enough." - Davis

"The river is beautiful because you are looking at it,"

"No one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again." - Davis

"Life is not something you wield, you know?" - Aza

"It's not a question of whether Chewie was human, Holmesy; it's a question of whether he was a person." - Daisy

What's the difference between who you are and what you have? Maybe nothing. - Davis

I is the hardest word to define. - Aza

Maybe you are what you can't not be. - Davis

And the thing is, when you lose someone, you realize you'll eventually lose everyone. - Davis

"It sounds to me like you're being cruel to yourself." - Dr. Singh

"You're right that self isn't simple, Aza. Maybe it's not even singular. Self is a plurality, but pluralities can also be integrated, right? Think of a rainbow. It's one arc of light, but also seven differently colored arc of light." - Dr. Singh

"In some ways, pain is the opposite of language." - Dr. Singh

"Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them." - Davis

"You might think that now, but you won't think that forever." - Aza

"You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less." - Dr. Singh

But from where the stars are watching, there is almost no differences between varieties of alive, between me and the newly mown grass I'm lying on right now. We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle. - Davis

The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company. - Davis

But she doesn't remind me of the past, for some reason. She feels present tense. - Davis

Life is a series of choices between wonders. - Davis

But gravity differs from affection:
Only one is constant. - Davis

We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us." - Davis

Our hearts were broken in the same places. That's something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself. - Aza

In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. - Davis

I am my way not my will. - Aza

"My whole life I thought I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along." - Daisy

You are somebody's something, but you are also your you. - Aza

The truth always disappoints. - Aza

"Sometimes you think you're spending money, but all along the money's spending you."
- Aza's mother

I was still at the beginning. I could still be anybody. - Aza

"Maybe you don't choose what's in the picture, but you decide on the frame."
- Daisy

I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me. - Aza

  To be alive is to be missing. - Aza

  Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out. - Aza

  "love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift."

  "I, singular proper noun, would go on, if always in a conditional tense."