#green

I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you. ↗

— John Green

#hazel-grace #john-green #love #tfios #love

As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #ya #love

I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your own throat,' our guardian warned me, the night before I left home to go to the royal court at Versailles ... I just laughed. 'Don't you know a woman's tongue is her sword? You wouldn't want me to let my only weapon rust, would you? ↗

— Kate Forsyth

#kate-forsyth #love-of-writing #women #love

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars ↗

— John Green

#human-nature #john-green #stars #the-fault-in-our-stars #nature

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money. ↗

— John May

#environment #greenpeace #money

The nature is continually conscious of every withdrawal from her body, as if it is a part of her flesh. The moment some thing is withdrawn it must be marked as ‘red’. ↗

— Priyavrat Thareja

#green #nature #nature

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner ↗

— John Green

#john-green #the-fault-in-our-stars #cancer

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#anne-of-green-gables #violets #l-m-montgomery

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#came #directed #green #guy #idea

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ↗

— William Blake

#eyes #green #imagination #itself #joy