“IT’S NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENT’S OWN THE WORLD’S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTA’S!”
![this is from Looking For Alaska [one of the best novels I have ever written]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_levwx3Fvf31qaub4jo1_400.jpg)
“Hank, Anna and The French Kiss is like Maureen Johnson and I had a baby, a French baby. No, it is nothing like that!”
I was sitting back.And I was listening.And I was hearing something about her and about windows and mirrors.Chuck Parson was a person.Like me.Margo Roth Spiegalman was a person, too.And I had never quite thought of her that way, not really; it was a failure to all my previous imaginings.All along-not only since she left, but for a decade before-I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as poor a window as I did.And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share.Someone who might read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to.Someone who-because noone thought she was a person-has no one to really talk to.The fundamental mistake I had always made-and that, she had, in fairness, always led me to make-was this: Margo was not a miracle.She was not an adventure.She was not a fine and precious thing.She was a girl.
-Paper Towns by John Green
That was perfect, I thought: you listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you’re trying to listen to.
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Paper Towns by John Green, page 216 submitted by: unless68 |
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When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
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| — | John Green (via mreusch) |
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.
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| — | Looking For Alaska, p 100 (via shanshan) |
