Life Quotes Quote by John Green, Turtles All the Way Down — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”

“It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. You don’t get to be in anything else—in friendship or in anger or in hope. All you can be in is love.”

“Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

““If you're reading this...”

“This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.”

“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that”

“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”