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“The world’s beauty is in soap bubbles, little specks of dust, galaxy shards, tiny things swept under the rugs that we stomp on day after day because we’re too busy to notice small treasures...The busy ghost presses his hands into my back and pushes me one way or the other to do this or that. I want to stop to see, to think, to breathe. I want to put my ear to the soil and listen for the ants. I want to daydream, fly a kite, run my hands through thick, green grass...” (Ophelia Blooming)

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elusive.: unpopular opinion. →

clap-yourhands:

I don’t actually think John Green is that great of an author.

ok, I enjoyed “Looking for Alaska”, in fact I read it in two days and was really quite gripped by it, but I think that’s because Green is good at teen fiction- full of cheese, and for most teens, an exciting idealistic love story, it’s…

Even with those similarities, I felt like the books had very different tones. Plus, there’s the bigger issue of dealing with death/loss in Looking For Alaska, and it occurs over a much more defined period of time. There’s always An Abundance of Katherine’s, while still involving a nerdy boy and his best friend, doesn’t deal with a missing girl. Then there’s Will Grayson, Will Grayson, which is very different—two boys with the same name, written by two authors. Personally, I’m very excited for The Fault In Our Stars. If anything, I’d recommend going for that one when it comes out. The main character is a girl, so, you know, it starts off different right there…

(Source: killyourmiddleclassindecision)

“Maybe it’s more like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like, each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen — these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack open in places. And I mean, yeah, once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it’s only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade, but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.”

John Green, Paper Towns (via wailun-deardaydream)
  • The Library (Featuring Aesop Rock)
The Library (Featuring Aesop Rock) by Kimya Dawson
Thunder Thighs
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sparklenight:

Kimya Dawson - The Library (with Aesop Rock)

This song is about libraries and namedrops Judy Blume, John Green and other greats from the YA world and it’s by Kimya and I think it’s the best song.  I was just pogoing to it in my room.

loving it!

tinworth:

my new John Green inspired vloggity vlog vlog, where I attempt to analyze the word “nerd” through a Platonist lens (kind of). Anywho, enjoy!

A person who exudes:
Never-ending
Enthusiasm, thus
Rendering
Delight. 

I like it!

“Nerd boys. I know that nerd boys don’t sparkle in the sunshine, but they’re sensitive, they’re caring, they’re sweet, they’ll do nice stuff for you, they’re a little bit needy, I will grant you that they’re a little bit needy.”

harrywhogleeks:

John Green just casually summing up ~my type~

“Oh, and lastly let me explain something briefly to boys. Gentlemen, nerd girls are the world’s greatest, underutilised romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls aren’t hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.”

“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)

(Source: musemymind)

thenotquiteaprincess: attempt #4 I like this one, too. It’s dark and colorful and draws me in.

thenotquiteaprincess:

attempt #4

I like this one, too. It’s dark and colorful and draws me in.