So Hank, I’m going to read you some comments that people have posted in the last week on “Vlog Brothers” videos. These are all direct quotes except for every time they use a curse word, I’m going to use the name of a famous American poet. “You ‘Walt Whitmaning’ ‘Edna St. Vincent Millay’. Go ‘Emily Dickinson’ your mom.” Thanks for the advice you pathetic piece of ‘E.E. Cummings’ but I think I’m going to pass.
And he missed that, too, and it hadn’t even happened. He missed his imagined future.
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John Green (An Abundance of Katherines) (via papercraned)
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‘Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last, the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.’
The thing about Margo Roth Spiegelman is that really all I could ever do was let her talk, and then when she stopped talking encourage her to go on, due to the facts that 1. I was incontestably in love with her, and 2. She was absolutely unprecedented in every way, and 3. She never really asked me any questions, so the only way to avoid silence was to keep her talking.
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
