We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
Weitere Zitate von John Green
Zum Autor"You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!"
"We are literally in the heart of Jesus,' he said.'I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.'Someone should tell Jesus,' I said. 'I mean, it's gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart."
"I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee."
"Who am I to say that these things might nit be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?"
"I know what happens a the end of falling-landing."
"Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about."