Quotes

“Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.” ― John Green, Looking For Alaska

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.” — Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.” — Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

“Every year, many many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.” — John Green, “College Advice From an Expert”, August 11, 2010

“Saying ‘I notice you’re a nerd’ is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?’ In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even ‘lame’ is kind of lame. Saying ‘You’re lame’ is like saying ‘You walk with a limp.’ Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he’s done all right for himself.” ― John Green, “How Nerdfighters Drop Insults”, July 27, 2007

“Adventure is out there!” ― Up

“‘According to legend, wherever the Pandorica was taken, throughout its long history, the Centurion would be there, guarding it. He appears as an iconic image in the artwork of many cultures, and there are several documented accounts of his appearances and his warnings to the many who attempted to open the box before its time. His last recorded appearance was during the London Blitz in 1941. The warehouse where the Pandorica was stored was destroyed by incendiary bombs, but the box itself was found the next morning, a safe distance from the blaze. There are eyewitness accounts from the night of the fire of a figure in Roman dress, carrying the box from the flames. Since then, there have been no sightings of the Lone Centurion, and many have speculated that if he ever existed, he perished in the fires of that night, performing one last act of devotion to the box he had pledged to protect for nearly 2,000 years.’ ‘Rory. Oh, Rory.’”  ― Doctor Who, “The Big Bang”

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” ― John Green, Looking For Alaska

“I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re going to do or become. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” ― John Green, Looking For Alaska

“I am a leaf on the wind…..watch how I soar.” — Serenity

“I think that it’s important to like stuff, cause we spend a lot of time thinking about things we don’t like. Whether its the world ending, or inequality, or Sex and the City. We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don’t like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.” — Hank Green, “A Few Of My Favorite Things “, April 1, 2009

“Hello old friend, and here we are. You and me, on the last page. By the time you read these words, Rory and I will be long gone. So know that we lived well, and that we’re very happy. And above all else, know that we will love you, always. Sometimes I do worry about you, though. I think, once we’re gone, you won’t be coming back here for a while, and you might be alone, which you should never be. Don’t be alone, doctor. And do one more thing for me. There’s a little girl waiting in a garden. She’s going to wait a long while, so she’s going to need a lot of hope. Go to her. Tell her a story. Tell her that if she’s patient, the days are coming which she’ll never forget. Tell her she’ll go to sea and fight pirates, she’ll fall in love with a man who’ll wait two thousand years to keep her safe. Tell her she’ll give hope to the greatest painter who ever lived, and save a whale in outer space. Tell her, this is the story of Amelia Pond. And this is how it ends.” ― Doctor Who, (The Angels Take Manhattan)

“Good Morning John, and all of the rest of you / I come to you now from this familiar vestibule / With advice for the graduates of college and high school / A familiar format, the well meaning nice tool / Who’ll grant you this, an afternoon’s savor / For cash or a favor, food with no flavor / Inspiring advice for the next few days / You’ll do well, have some of this Kool-Aid / It’s time, you must bite of the cherry of life / It’ll taste like fear and hope and Diet Coke and rainbows / But don’t be surprised when the pain grows / Cause this’s kinda gonna suck, but you can’t abstain though / There is no ‘do not’ / There’s no effin try. / There’s no ‘I don’t wanna’ / If you don’t like it, then die. / Well no, I’m not condoning suicide / I’m just trying to be motivational / A little overly sensational / You get it, I’m sure / So I abjure / Oh, you don’t know what abjure means? / Maybe you’re not as prepared as you seem / It’s like rejecting an error but with, like, a bit extra care / I’m pretty sure they should’ve taught you that / I’m making a point here, and it’s that you don’t know jack / The best of you can hope to have been taught to learn / To yearn for more that you’ll still have to earn / Cause you’re not ending learning, you’re ending this one structure / And yeah, I’m starting to sound like a schmuck, sure / But you’re gonna keep learning, one way or the other / Whether it’s how to make change or be someone’s mother / Or make music or coffee or toffee or spreadsheets / Or hotels or laws or websites or bed sheets. / And don’t you dare think “But I majored in lit; I won’t do that sh[beep]” / Well I majored in chemistry, what did I do with it? / I make videos for nerds, I’m an entrepreneur / I taught myself 90% of what I’ve learned / And that’s normal, it’s boring, it’s average, but it’s true / And for most of you hearing this, it’ll be true for you too / And it should be, if it’s not, then that life’s hardly real / And it’s scary, sure, be wary, but deal / Insecurity is something that you’re always going to feel / So the deep dark yawning pit of the next step of your life / Might look like a fall, but it could be a flight / And who knows, that pit might be filled with ice cream / And you might be lactose intolerant, but you get what I mean / Or maybe pain and failure is all that’s awaiting you / I’m just baiting you. / Whether your facing hell or a festival / My point here, right now, is grab it by the testicle. / Make it your bitch! This is all that you’ve got! / Your one shot, it’s short, it’s actually probably not / But while you grab life by the balls, be careful with people / Don’t be a creep or you might find a deep hole / Success might be however you define it / But if you define it wrong, you’re never gonna find it / Or even if you do, it’ll suck to know / that you got there at the expense of those / who you love, or would have, if you’d ever even tried / Because it’s not he who has the most toys when he died / It’s just life, and if you’re not at least trying to be happy, then why? / So ONE you don’t know jack, TWO be nice to others / Whether you become executives,  or barristas or stay-at-home mothers / And finally, have fun / Okay that’s all, I think I’m done / And that was a pretty good denouement / So I’ll see you on Wednesday, John.” ― Hank Green, “Grab It By The Testicle”, May 16, 2011

“‘Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. Whaddya suppose that makes us?’ ‘Big damn heroes, sir.’ ‘Ain’t we just!’” — Firefly, “Safe”

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” — Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

“This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen; this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger, and I mean fatal. I’m dead, or about to die any second with no chance of escape. And that’s okay. Hope it’s a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that’s what I’m doing. The TARDIS is taking you home. And I bet you’re fussing and moaning now- typical! But hold on and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I’m facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do: let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it; no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world will move on and the box will be buried. And if you wanna remember me, then you can do one thing, that’s all, one thing. Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life.” ― Doctor Who, “The Parting of the Ways”

“Hank, I didn’t see the Harry Potter movie on midnight of opening day like you did, but I went to see it last night with the Yeti and we were sitting there like 30 minutes before it started and the theater was filling up and I was like ‘I’m so excited about the Harry Potter movie! I get to see Luna Lovegood and I’m gonna cry at the end!’ And then I really liked the movie because it was funny but it was also sad and it didn’t tell destructive lies about teenage sexuality like some other movies I’ve seen recently… and Ron Weasley has gotten so buff…I mean Hank, the movie was great, but the thirty minutes before the movie started was what I love about being a nerd. Because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. We don’t have to be like, ‘Oh yeah that purse is okay’ or like, ‘Yeah, I like that band’s early stuff.’ Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.” ― John Green, “Harry Potter Nerds Win at Life”, July 9, 2009

“And, since they are theatre people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“‘What is the secret to a successful marriage?’ ‘Mutual generosity. Also its nice if you can like the same television programs.’” ― John Green, “Romance and Sex Questions in an Airport”, April 17, 2012

“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.” — Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

“‘Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What’ll she do next?’ ‘Either blow us all up or rub soup in her hair. It’s a toss-up.’ ‘I hope she does the soup thing. It’s always a hoot and we don’t all die from it.’” — Firefly, “Objects in Space”

“Hank, I think that’s why, in the end, all we can really do is be kind to each other. We don’t know what’s ahead – for us, or for our places. After all, Hank, nothing is etched in stone… well, until it is.” ― John Green, “Thoughts From Places: Small Town America”, February 18, 2011

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.” ― John Green, “Quotations (And Holden Hats)”, March 29, 2010

“Hank, it all comes down to the fact that the truth resists simplicity.” ― John Green, as quoted by Hank Green, “YOU ARE WRONG!”, January 19, 2011

“Do you ever wonder why I chose you all those years ago?’ ‘I chose you. You were unlocked.’ ‘Of course I was. I wanted to see the Universe so I stole a Time Lord and ran away. And you were the only one mad enough.’” ― Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.” — Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“We read to know that we are not alone.” — C.S. Lewis

“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.” — Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe! But, bad news, everyone, ‘cause guess who! Ha! Listen, you lot! You’re all whizzing about. It’s really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute, because I! Am! Talking!! Now the question of the hour is, “Who’s got the Pandorica?” Answer: I do. Next question: Who’s coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else I don’t have: Anything to lose! So, if you’re sitting up there in your silly, little spaceship with all your silly, little guns, and you’ve got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who’s standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you and then, and then, do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.” ― Doctor Who, “The Pandorica Opens”

“If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” ― John Green, Paper Towns

“When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it’ll never end. But however hard you try, you can’t run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies, and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it. Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, Every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call… everybody lives.” — Doctor Who, “Forest of the Dead”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” — C.S. Lewis

“‘What Jeff’s doing right now is called denial, and it is the first of five stages of grief that ends with acceptance.’ ‘Name any other stage.’ ‘What are you, my final?’” — Community, “Course Listing Unavailable

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.” — The Hunger Games, Catching Fire

”’I’ve got nothing.’ ‘Oh my beautiful idiot. You have what you’ve always had. You’ve got me.’ — Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”

“Fiction is a place where we find both revelation and consolation.” — John Green, “YA Fiction and Love: The Miracle of Swindon Town #100”, April 16, 2012

“It got darker, snowier, until finally the road delivered us to the one place that all my youthful trips west never could: Home.” — John Green, “Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places”, December 29, 2010

“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“Hello. I’m the Doctor. Basically… run.” ― Doctor Who, “The Eleventh Hour”

“Dear Evolution, I have always believed in you, and I have always defended you. Now make me a puppy-sized elephant! Your friend, John.” ― John Green, “The Return of Question Tuesdays”, January 8, 2008

“‘I was sorted as a Hufflepuff on Pottermore. Can you console me?’ ‘Console you? That you’re joining the house of Helga Hufflepuff and Tonks? I’m not going to console you. I’ll congratulate you!’” — John Green, “Will He Kiss you? Am I a Muggle? It’s Question Friday”, August 26, 2011

“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution.” — J.K. Rowling

“‘Doctor. Are you there? It’s so very dark in here.’ ‘I’m here. Hey.’ ‘I’ve been looking for a word. A big, complicated word, but so sad. I found it now.’ ‘What word?’ ‘Alive. I’m alive.’ ‘Alive isn’t sad.’ ‘It’s sad when it’s over. I’ll always be here. But this is when we talked. And now even that has come to an end. There’s something I didn’t get to say to you.’ ‘Goodbye.’ ‘No. I just wanted to say, hello. Hello Doctor. It’s so very very nice to meet you.’ ‘Please. I don’t want you to.’ ‘I love you.’” — Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”

“‘Sometimes I like to pour hot chocolate mix into cold milk and drink it like a cold hot chocolate. I call it special drink.’ ‘And someday you will know it by its true name, diabetes.’” — Community, “Home Economics”

“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, ‘Well this isn’t to bad, I don’t have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I’m left-handed or right-handed’ but most of us would say something more along the lines of ‘Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!’” — Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

“Sarah is like the Yeti. She’ll appear prominently in our folklore, you’ll hear many stories about her, but sighting will be exceedingly rare.” — John Green, “Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd”, January 2, 2007

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.” — Doctor Who, “Blink”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.” — J.K. Rowling

“‘Why is Hazel called ‘Hazel’?’ ‘Because it’s an in between color and she has an in between life: in between health and sickness, in between adolescence and adulthood, in between swimming and drowning.’” — John Green, “Sharpie Face Question Tuesday”, March 20, 2012

“I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, ‘I want to go too! I want to go too!’ And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: ‘We are all going.’” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Here’s a number: 2. It’s the number of brothers who are the luckiest brothers in ever. So thank you all for that. Thank you if you ever watched a video, or participated in a project, or donated to any of the charities that we have supported. Thanks for helping us be better people and for traveling with us on this journey. And John and I will continue to do our best to not let you down, and to make great content that you like watching, and also to try and make the world a better place. John, (Hank signing off in first vlogbrothers video: “Auto power off? Why the f-?”)” ― Hank Green, “1000 Videos!!!), September 14, 2012

“I’m being extremely clever up here and there’s no one to stand around looking impressed! What’s the point in having you all?” ― Doctor Who, “Day of the Moon”

“That’s how we muddle through as observers of the universe, forging meaning where we can find it, from fact and fiction alike. And as my brain drowned in jet lag, I thought of the months I lived here; So much of that time I was sick and crippled with anxiety, but all I can think about now, as night fell, was how much you could love made up people. And how much you could miss them,” ― John Green, “Wrong But Right and Pantsless in Amsterdam: Thoughts From Places”, March 27, 2012

“You’re VH1, Robocop 2, and Back to the Future 3. You’re the center slice of a square cheese pizza. Actually, that sounds delicious. I’m the center slice of a square cheese pizza. You’re Jim Belushi.” — Community, “Introduction to Finality”

“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“What genre of music are the Hectic Glow? The genre of awesome.” —John Green, “Question Tuesday: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS IS HERE EDITION”, January 10, 2012

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” — Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“‘I don’t understand. Who are you?’ ‘Do you really not know me? Just because they put me in here?’ ‘They said you were dangerous.’ ‘Not the cage, stupid. In here. They put me in here. I’m the… Oh, what do you call me? We travel. I go *vworp vworp*.’ ‘The TARDIS?’ ‘Time and Relative Dimension in Space. Yes that’s it. Names are funny. It’s me. I’m the TARDIS.’ ‘No you’re not! You’re a bitey mad lady. The TARDIS is up-and-downy stuff in a big blue box.’Yes, that’s me. A type 40 TARDIS. I was already a museum piece when you were young. And the first time you ever touched my console you said-’ ‘I said you were the most beautiful thing that I had ever known.’ ‘Then you stole me. And I stole you.’ ‘I borrowed you.’ ‘Borrowing implies the eventual intention to return the thing that was take. What make you thing that I would ever give you back?’ ‘You’re the TARDIS? ‘Yes.’ ‘My TARDIS?!’ ‘My Doctor!’” — Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”

“Just keep swimming” — Finding Nemo

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” — C.S. Lewis

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore it knows it’s not fooling a soul.” — Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“There’s something here that doesn’t make sense. Let’s go and poke it with a stick.” — Doctor Who, “Amy’s Choice”

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure” — Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

“Letting it get to you. You know what that’s called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now is all that counts.” — Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”

“You’re monsters! You’re Hitlers! You’re racist pdeophiles! You’re the opposites of Batman!” — Community, “Origins of Vampire Mythology”

“Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there’s a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, ‘I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.’” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that’s the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me” — Doctor Who, “The Pandorica Opens”

“You know, since we’re talking with mouths, not really an opportunity that comes along very often, I just want to say, you know you have never been very reliable.’ ‘And you have?’ ‘You didn’t always take me where I wanted to go.’ ‘No, but I always took you where you needed to go.’” — Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” — Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things. But vice versa - the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.” — Doctor Who, “Vincent and The Doctor”

“What matters to you defines your mattering.” ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“It is my belief… that the truth is generally preferable to lies.” — Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.” — Lemony Snicket

“‘Oh, look at that. You’ve got Kermit up there.’ ‘He’s just, you know, my household god.’ ‘I have- That’s where I have Padre Pio. I have a Roman Catholic saint and you have Kermit.’ ‘I figured Padre Pio was a soccer player. Just assumed!’” — John and Hank Green, “Hank’s Question Tuesday DEBUT!”, August 17, 2011

“Hold my hand, Doctor. Try to see what I see. We’re so lucky we’re still alive to see this beautiful world. Look at the sky. It’s not dark and black and without character. The black is in fact deep blue. And over there! Lighter blue. And blowing through the blueness and the blackness, the winds swirling through the air. And there shining, burning, bursting through, the stars! Can you see how they roll their light? Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.” — Doctor Who, “Vincent and The Doctor”

“How improbable is that, Hank? How improbable are we? How strange, and how lovely to be anything at all.” — John Green, “To Be Anything At All: Thoughts From Places, Chicago, and LeakyCon 2012), August 14, 2012

“In our hypersecular world, worship is still inevitable. But it’s vital to remember that our gods don’t choose us, we choose them.” ― John Green, “Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo”, June 12, 2012

“As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.” ― John Green, Paper Towns

“As he read, I fell in love that way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” — Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“‘Hank, you’re holding a Picasso while eating Pringles.’ ‘First!’” —John and Hank Green, “The BEST HOTEL ROOM Ever”, January 24, 2012

“‘I love old things. They make me feel sad.’ ‘What’s good about sad?’ ‘It’s happy for deep people.’  — Doctor Who, “Blink”

“‘Look at us! Talking! Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could always talk, even when you’re stuck inside the box?’ ‘But you know I’m not constructed that way. I exist across all space and time and you talk and run around and bring home strays!’ — Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”

“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“So here’s my advice: study broadly and without fear. Lean a language if you can because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But most importantly, try to surround yourself with people you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end (at least in my experience), what you do isn’t going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with. And Hank, that’s why I always say that the best decision we made as video bloggers was also the first decision: to collaborate with each other.” ― John Green, “What To Do With Your Life”, October 2, 2012

“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.” — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Some days it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.” — Hank Green, “Thoughts from a Butterfly Hatch”, August 22, 2011

“‘What do you think, dear? Huh? Where should we take the kids this time?’ ‘Look at you pair. It’s always you and her isn’t it? Long after the rest of us have gone. A boy and his box off to see the universe.’ ‘Well, you say that as if it’s a bad thing. But honestly it’s the best thing there is.’” — Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”

“Henry basically only has two questions about everything in the world whether it’s an airplane or a person: ‘What sound does it make and what does it eat?’ So I told him the truth that if you hear the sound a honey badger makes it’s too late for you and that honey badgers eat EVERYTHING. So, he interpreted that second answer very broadly. Like, whenever we can’t find the remote, he’s always like, ‘Honey badger eat it!’ And when you try to explain to him the extinction of the dinosaurs, he’s like, ‘Honey badger eat dinosaurs!’ All of which is to say, Hank, that when I asked Henry why he thought the universe has no edge, I knew how he’d answer, but I was still delighted. That’s right, Hank: ‘Honey badger ate the edge.’” —John Green, “Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria’s Quarterly Report”, March 13, 2012

“You are human tennis elbow. You are a pizza burn on the roof of the world’s mouth. You are the opposite of Batman.” — Community, “Biology 101”

“’This is bad, I don’t like this. Never use force, you just embarrass yourself. Unless you’re cross, in which case… always use force!’ ‘Shall I run and get the manual?’ ‘I threw it in a supernova.’ ‘You threw the manual in a supernova? Why?’ ‘Because I disagreed with it! Now stop talking to me when I’m cross!’” — Doctor Who, “Amy’s Choice”

“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” — C.S. Lewis

“We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“What the meaning of life? Other people.” — John Green, “100 Questions Answered”, August 30, 2009

“Do you know what happens when you wish on a dandy lion? He eats you.” — John Green, “DANDY LIONS! It’s Question Day”, March 9, 2011

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” — Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. I’m in class, so teach me.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.” ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Some days it’s okay for things to not be rationally true.” — Hank Green, “Thoughts from a Butterfly Hatch”, August 22, 2011

“I just want you to know, there are worlds out there, safe in the sky because of her. That there are people living in the light, and singing songs of Donna Noble. A thousand, million light years away. They will never forget her, while she can never remember. But for one moment…one shining moment…she was the most important woman in the whole wide universe.” — Doctor Who, “Journey’s End”

“And Hank, I remember that you were a big fan of the show Blue’s Clues when you were in college.” — John Green, “A Surreal Descent into Madness: Reviewing Children’s TV”, April 10, 2012

“I kind of think that everyone who disagrees with me is wrong.” — John Green, “Movies I’ve Seen: The Miracle of Swindon Town #90”, March 27, 2012

“‘I am…I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout to the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.” — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Carl Fredricksen: ‘This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he’s trying to kill us. What a joke.’ Dug: ‘Hey, I know a joke! A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, ‘I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead.’ Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead.’” — Up

“It’s curtains for you, Doctor. Lacy, gently wafting curtains.” — Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

“’I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way.’ ‘Stuff does that.’” — Doctor Who, “The Impossible Astronaut”

“Me and Abed have an agreement. If one of us dies, we stage it to look like a suicide caused be the unjust cancellation of Firefly. We’re gonna get that show back on the air, buddy.” — Community, “Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking”

“Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended a symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves and when we do that, we can look out at the world and see a giant, endless set of beautiful variations of pizzas. THE WHOLE WORLD COMPOSED OF BILLIONS OF BEAUTIFUL DELICIOUS PIZZAS!” — John Green, “Life Is Like Pizza”, September 20, 2010

“‘Testing, testing. Captain, can you hear me?’ ‘I’m standing right here.’ ‘You’re coming through good and loud.’ ‘Cause I’m standing right here.’” — Firefly, “Serenity”

“I love being in cities with lots of other people because I’m reminded that there are billions of people like me and we are each stuck inside of our minds feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people.” — John Green, “Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich”, July 28, 2010

“These trampolines are just close enough to each other to invite poor decisions and just far enough apart to punish those poor decisions.” — John Green, “Looking for Alaska at My High School”, August 6 2010

“You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have.” — Doctor Who, “Tooth and Claw”

“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar” — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“‘Jeff, what do you do when you and your best friend want to ask the same girl to Valentine’s Day but neither of you have dibs ‘cause both of you fell in love with at the first sight?’ ‘Well, I don’t believe in dibs, or love at first sight, or love, or best friends, or doing things, but it’s good you brought this to me.”’ — Community, “Early 21st Century Romanticism”

“It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortably as possible? What should a story seek to emulate? Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether— to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteen-year-olds you no doubt revile— there is a point to it all.” — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Planet Earth. This is where I was born. And this is where I died. The first nineteen years of my life, nothing happened. Nothing at all, not ever. And then I met a man called the Doctor. A man who could change his face. And he took me away from home in his magical machine. He showed me the whole of time and space. I thought it would never end. ‘How long are you going to stay with me?’ ‘Forever.’ Well, that’s what I thought. But then came the Army of Ghosts. Then came Torchwood and the war. That’s when it all ended. This is the story of how I died.”  — Doctor Who, “Army of Ghosts”

“Now every single time I go to Canada I am forced to explain again that in 1995 I was deemed insufficiently wealthy to visit this great nation. And they searched my bags and let me go my way. So anyway, today I asked the guy, ‘Is this going to last forever? Is there any way I can clear my name, make a donation to your health care system, or something that will allow me not to be on the list?’ and he said, and I’m quoting him directly here, Hank, ‘Mr. Green, you’re going to die on that list.’” —John Green, “Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada”, June 26, 2012

“Do you know how long someone who is as sarcastic as I am would last in prison? Suuuuuuch a long time.” — Community, “The First Chang Dynasty”

“We have this weird thing in the world, where you don’t get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.” — John Green, “GAY is NOT an INSULT”, June 29, 2009

“As we kept driving north, I thought about how all my old road trips had taken me west. Partly because that’s where the open space is in America and partly because of this amazing line from this book I loved called All The King’s Men. ‘For west is where we all plan to go someday,’ Robert Penn Warren wrote, ‘It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: ‘Flee, all is discovered.’ It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and see the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire.’ A BUBBLE ON THE TIDE OF EMPIRE! Hank! French the llama! What I wouldn’t give to write sentences like that!” — John Green, “Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places”, December 29, 2010

“If I could just take a moment to share a few words of sarcasm with whoever it is that took this pen. I wanna say thank you for doing this to me. For a while I thought I’d have to suffer through a puppy parade, but I much prefer being entombed alive in a mausoleum of feelings I can neither understand nor reciprocate. So whoever you are, can I get you anything? Ice cream, best friend medal, anything? Okay, sarcasm over.” — Community,” Cooperative Calligraphy”

“As you know, Hank, I hate the idea that when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It’s strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds. When I was a student, why was I so willing to work hard, much, much too hard, to make people like me and so unwilling to work hard to read great novels or comprehend the edgelessness of the universe?” —John Green, “On Cuties and Cooties”, February 28, 2012

“‘What’s your take on the Oxford Comma?’ Lovely — comma space — un-intrusive — comma space — and absolutely necessary.” — John Green, “CONCUSSED Question Friday”, January 7, 2011

“You’re more of a fun vampire. You don’t suck blood, you just suck.” — Community, “The Science of Illusion”

“‘The Cybermen — they blew up! I blew them up with love!’ ’ No, that’s impossible — and also grossly sentimental and overly simplistic. You destroyed them because of the deeply engrained hereditary trait to protect one’s own genes — which in turn triggered a… a… uh….Yeah. Love. You blew them up with love.’ — Doctor Who, “Closing Time”

“I was hiding under your porch because I love you.” — Up

“Ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots. SHUT UP!” — Firefly, “War Stories”

“When you wake up in the morning, you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don’t scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is still there. The floor is always there. Until it’s not.” — John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“We all know that video games are a simplification of real life, but I think that’s what’s so compelling about them because real life is complicated. Video games give us goals and you know when you’ve failed and when you’ve succeeded; in real life, that’s pretty rare, especially as you get older. Everything you do is a combination of success and failure. There is no moment of which you complete the mission and say ‘Ah, I am done, thank you’ because the mission is life and it only completes when you die.” — Hank Green, “Hank Has Questions”, October 29, 2010

“‘When I want a lot of medical jargon, I’ll talk to a doctor.’ ‘You are talking to a doctor.’” — Firefly, “Objects in Space”

“I wish I could tell you that you’ll be loved. That you’ll be safe and cared for and protected. But this isn’t the time for lies. What you are going to be, Melody, is very, very brave’ ‘Two minutes.’ ‘But not as brave that they’ll have to be. Because there’s someone coming. I don’t know where he is, or what he’s doing, but trust me, he’s on his way….There’s a man who will never let us down. And not even an army can get in the way. He’s the last of his kind. He looks young but he’s lived for hundreds and hundreds of years. And wherever they take you, Melody, however scared you are, I promise you, you’ll never be alone. Because this man is your father. He has a name but the people of our world know him better…as the Last Centurion….’”  — Doctor Who, “A Good Man Goes to War”

“All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.” — John Green, Paper Towns

“‘It’s bigger on the inside!’ ‘Is it? I hadn’t noticed.’” — Doctor Who, “Smith and Jones”

“I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going.” — John Green, “Zombiecorns”

“When you become roommates with friends, the things you love about them become the things that make you want to smother them with a pillow.” — Community, “Studies in Modern Movement”

“My experience is that there is, you know surprisingly, always hope.” — Doctor Who, “Vincent and The Doctor”

“Of all the timelines, this is clearly the darkest, which is why I propose we commit to being evil.” — Community, “Remedial Chaos Theory”

“The Girl Who Waited. Come here, you. That’s funny, I thought if you could hear me I could hang on somehow, silly me, silly old Doctor. When you wake up, you’ll have a mum and dad, and you won’t even remember me. Well, you’ll remember me a little; I’ll be a story in your head, but that’s ok. We’re all stories in the end; just make it a good one, eh? Cause it was, you know? It was the best, a daft old man who stole a magic box, and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well, I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back. Oh that box, Amy, you’ll dream about that box. It’ll never leave you, big and little at the same time, brand new and ancient and the bluest blue ever. And the times we had, eh? Would’ve had, never had. In your dreams they’ll still be there, The Doctor and Amy Pond: and the days that never came. The cracks are closing, but they can’t close properly until I’m on the other side. I don’t belong here anymore. I think I’ll skip the rest of the rewind, I hate repeats. Live well. Love Rory. Bye bye, Pond.” — Doctor Who, “The Big Bang”

“Do you seriously think that teenagers are not able to read critically? When they read George Orwell’s Animal Farm, do they head out to the pig farms to kill all the pigs because they’re about to become communist autocrats? When they read Huck Finn, do they think that Huck should turn Jim in because the demented conscience of the community says so? When they read Waiting For Godot, do they think it’s cool to just sit around & do nothing? Well, probably they do, actually, that one doesn’t really work toward my point.” — John Green, “I Am Not A Pornographer”, January 30, 2008

“Sometimes in our hyper-cynical world, we forget that it’s okay to get enthusiastic about things.” — John Green, “WROCK!”, May 24, 2009

“Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.” — John Green, Looking For Alaska

“‘He’ll be fine, he’s a Time Lord.’ ‘It’s just what they’re called, it doesn’t mean he actually knows what he’s doing.’” —Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”

“Even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.” —John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That’s because I’m a dork. And I’m gonna choose not to explain myself. ” — Hank Green, “Secret Project…And More Punching”, December 11, 2007

“‘What’re you doing for lunch?’ ‘It’s Wednesday, sometimes I eat in Jeff’s car. Don’t tell him,’” — Community, “Aerodynamics of Gender”

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” — Mark Twain

“‘No. Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away.’ ‘You what?’ ’ Those words. ‘Run away.’ I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you ‘Colonel Run Away.’ I want children laughing outside your door because they’ve found the house of Colonel Run Away. And when people come to you and ask if trying to get to me through the people I love is in any way a good idea… I want you to tell them your name. Oh, look, I’m angry. That’s new. I’m really not sure what’s going to happen now.’” — Doctor Who, “A Good Man Goes to War”

“Caring about stuff binds us to the other people who care about that stuff and that creates the communities that make life worth living.” — John Green, “Participatory Geometry”, March 28, 2011

“In the contemporary world where things fall apart and the center cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no center.” — John Green, “John’s Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video”, December 28, 2007

“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, when you meet them you think, “Not bad. They’re okay.” And then you get to know them and… and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful.” — Doctor Who, “The Girl Who Waited”

“Hank, maybe it’s just me, but I prefer the hard truths of zombies to the easy lies of unicorns.” — John Green, “Zombies v. Unicorns”, October 8, 2007

“‘You want to be forgiven.’ ‘Don’t we all?’” — Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”

“So last year when Esther was really sick, John said to her, ‘Esther we will do whatever you want on your birthday, in perpetuity. Whatever you want, we will do that. And she could have been like, ‘I want you to shave your head. I want you to wax your chin. I want you to eat a hamburger made out of compact discs.’ But no. Esther was like, ‘I want you guys, every year on my birthday, to talk about family and love.’ That is very sweet, but she also… she knew what she was doing here ‘cause John and I have had a long-standing agreement to not use the ‘L’-word when talking about one another. And up to that point there had been much discussion in Nerdfighteria like, ‘Why don’t you guys have a talk about how you love each other in your video blogs?’ What is this voice? But despite the fact that people were always asking us to do it, John and I do not use the ‘L’-word. This is a long-standing agreement, like from birth! But Esther told us to and when someone that you respect is about to die, you do what they tell you to do, you know? But here’s the thing about Esther Day: it’s something that she asked to do a little bit for her, and a little bit for nerdfighteria, but mostly I think it’s something she asked us to do for ourselves. And that’s pretty special. From the perspective of kinda being both at the beginning of her life and very much at the end of her life, she had a special kind of wisdom that we shouldn’t ignore. She knew that loving each other is the most important thing that we do. It’s not just the reason each of us as individuals exist; it’s the reason why, like, our species is. It’s the reason why our civilization exists. It’s the only reason why we can do these marvelous, magnificent human things.”  — Hank Green, “I Love My Brother”, August 3, 2011

“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It’s all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can’t go all the way around.” — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I usually have one foot out of reality and even I’m freaking out right now.” — Community, “Accounting for Lawyers”

“‘I’m going to need a SWAT team ready to mobilise, street over maps covering all of Florida, a pot of coffee, twelve Jammy Dodgers and a fez.’ ‘Get him his maps.’”  — Doctor Who, “The Impossible Astronaut”

“Do you now like I was sayin’ about the Earth revolving? It’s like when you’re a kid. The first time they tell you that the Earth’s turnin’ and you just can’t quite believe it cause everythin’ looks like it’s standin’ still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinnin’ at 1,000 miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtlin’ ‘round the Sun at 67,000 miles an hour and I can feel it. We’re fallin’ through space, you and me, clingin’ to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go…That’s who I am.” — Doctor Who, “Rose”

“It is nice, on a Thursday morning in April, to be a kid for a while, exploring with old friends, never knowing what wonder or terror may wait around the corner; and isn’t that why we explore, and also why we read and watch sports and browse Tumblr and study astrophysics? Whether we’re watching horror movies or accidentally visiting their sets, I think we’re after the terrifying, awesome, other-worldly feeling of not knowing what lies in wait.” — John Green, “Beneath an Abandoned Hospital: Thoughts From Places”, April 24, 2012

“I want to minimize the number of deaths I am responsible for.” — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“‘I’m confused.’ ‘Yeah, well, it’s a big club. We should get t-shirts.’” — Doctor Who, “The Curse of the Black Spot”

“Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.’” — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“‘How did you know about the boxes? You said they’d make me angry. How did you know?’ ‘Ah. It’s my thief.’ ‘Who are you?’ ‘Hm. It’s about time.’” — Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife”

“Welcome to the degeneration of my mind.” — Hank Green,“Please Google, Take Me to Mars”, April 1, 2008

“‘Well that would be lovely dear, but we can’t. Because its completely impossible.’ ‘Ah, no, you see, it’s not. Its almost completely impossible.’” — Doctor Who, “The Big Bang”

“It came because it couldn’t stand to watch your children cry. What if you were really old, and really kind and alone? Your whole race dead, no future. What couldn’t you do then? If you were that old, and that kind, and the very last of your kind…. you couldn’t just stand there and watch children cry.” — Doctor Who, “The Beast Below”

“There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior… A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.” — Doctor Who, “The Pandorica Opens”

“Hank, at the end of this year, I started to think that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.” — John Green, “Dec. 28: John’s Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video”, December 28, 2007

“‘That sounds like something out of science fiction.’ ‘We live on a spaceship, dear.’” — Firefly, “Objects in Space”

“No, I don’t think you’re gonna be single forever, and also I don’t understand your obsession with romantic love. There are other ways to have fulfilling relationships that can sustain you and make your life great and fun, other than having a sexualized relationship. It’s not the only kind of fulfilling human interaction. So, even if you are single forever that doesn’t mean that you’ve had some kind of failed life.” — John Green, “Will I…Google Autofill: The Miracle of Swindon Town #61” January 23, 2012

“‘Fellas, the guns, really? I just walked into highest security office in the United States, parked a big blue box on the rug, you think you can just shoot me?’ ‘They’re Americans!’” — Doctor Who, “The Impossible Astronaut”

“There is a permanence to the present tense. An infinity within the finite. The present tense is always present. It is always happening now.” — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“‘Are they happy?’ ‘Oh Rory. Trust you to think of that. I think they’re happy to be alive. Better than the alternative.’” —Doctor Who, “The Girl Who Waited”

“I was never a prefect. My Head of House said I lacked necessary qualities..like the ability to behave myself.” — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire, through empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought and a whole, terrible, wonderful universe of impossibilities.” — Doctor Who, “Night Terrors”

“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.” — Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic

“I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter—maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.” — John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.” — John Green, Looking For Alaska

“All of time and space, everywhere and anywhere, every star that ever was. Where do you want to start?” — Doctor Who, “The Eleventh Hour”