A comment on John’s video
“Last year, we created enough food to feed 11 billion people. And yet, of the 7 billion people we have, a billion of them struggle with hunger. So what is up with that? Well, about half of that food was fed to cows, chickens, and pigs. So…that’s a problem.”
-Hank Green (“7,000,000,000 People”)
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, maybe it’s 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.
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| — | Hazel Grace Lancaster, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (via approachingnormal) |
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.
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| — | “Looking for Alaska” John Green (via himselfcouldhavetheskies) |
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.
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| — | John Green (via hankandjohnsaid) |
I want to thank nerdfighteria for being so supportive, Stan Muller for doing everything other than signing, my brother for hanklerfishing, and everyone at Penguin for indulging my strange dream.
But mostly I want to thank Sarah. Without her constant support and enthusiasm, this project would never have been finished. And also Henry! He helped a lot, too.
I hope you enjoy The Fault in Our Stars, and if you want one of these signatures, I’d encourage you to preorder tfios today from your local independent bookstore. Thanks again to everyone!
Happy dance! Congrats, John! And thank YOU.
