Aza Holmes Quotes

“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.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“To be alive is to be missing.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on the side of the road, and I told myself I didn't have to get into that car, that my moment of choice was not whether to have the thought, but whether to be carried away by it.
And then I got in the car.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You'd think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does. The truth always disappoints.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was watching a movie about my life instead of living it.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Holmesy, you okay?" Daisy asked. I nodded. Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolerated me. Why any of them did. Even I found myself annoying.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The problem with happy endings, I said, is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
― John Green

“And if you can't pick what you do or think about, then maybe you aren't really real, you know? Maybe I'm just a lie that I'm whispering to myself.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.
Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You seemed locked inside of your mind, and I can't know what's going on in there, and it scared me.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“It sucked having a dead person in your family, and I knew what he meant, about seeking solace in the old light. Three years from now, I knew, he'd find a different favorite star, one with older light to gaze upon. And when time caught up with that one, he'd love a farther star, and a farther one, because you can't let the light catch up with the present. Otherwise you'd forget.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you. I thought about the gut-brain information axis. Maybe you're already gone. The prisoners run the jail now. Not a person so much as a swarm. Not a bee, but the hive.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I knew how disgusting I was. I knew. I knew now for sure. I wasn't possessed by a demon. I was the demon.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“If taking a pill makes you different, lie, if it changes the way-down you...that's just a screwed-up idea, you know? Who's deciding what me means - me or the employees of the factory that makes Lexapro? It's like I have this demon inside of me, and I want it gone, but the idea of removing it via pill is...I don't know...weird. But a lot of days I get over that, because I do really hate the demon.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Partly, I kept forgetting, but also there was something else I couldn't quite identify, some way-down fear that taking a pill to become myself was wrong.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Okay, well, I feel more like seven things than one thing.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor. Descending, but that is, too. Forged in the smithy of someone else's soul. Please just let me out whoever is authoring me, let me up out of this. Anything to be out of this.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Me gustan los poemas cortos con rima extraña, porque así es la vida.
-¿Así es la vida?
-Sí. Rima, pero no como esperas.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“For the record, he who does fear death also dies only once, but whatever.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time - between 12:37 P.M. and 1:14 P.M. - by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn't even begin to identify them.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“My children are grown-ups., so you and Noah are my only little boys I have left.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“às vezes eu não entendia como daisy gostava de mim, ou sequer me aguentava. não entendia como alguém podia me aguentar. até eu me achava irritante.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“a questão da espiral é que, se a seguimos, ela nunca termina. só vai se afunilando, infinitamente.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Sentía la tensión en el aire, y sabía que él estaba buscando la manera de volver a alegrarme. Su cerebro daba vueltas al lado del mío. Yo no podía alegrarme, pero podía entristecer a la gente que me rodeaba,”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Sentía la tensión en el aire, y sabía que él estaba buscando la manera de volver a alegrarme. Su cerebro daba vueltas al lado del mío. Yo no podía alegrarme, pero podía entristecer a la gente que me rodeaba.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“(...) yo intentaba explicarle que hay algo enormemente extraño y triste en la idea de que solo puedes llegar a ser tú mismo ingiriendo una medicación que cambia tu yo.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“El problema de los finales felices es que o no son de verdad felices, o no son de verdad finales, ¿sabes? En la vida real, unas cosas van mejor y otras peor. Y al final mueres.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down