- Isaac: How can you just break the promise?
- Hazel: Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.
- Isaac: Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?
- Hazel:
- Isaac: Well, I believe in true love, and I love her. And she promised me. She promised me always.
- Isaac: How can you just break the promise?
- Hazel: Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.
- Isaac: Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?
- Hazel:
- Isaac: Well, I believe in true love, and I love her. And she promised me. She promised me always.
(Source: julius--caesar, via curious-earth)
Hazel is wrong about infinite cardinality, but she’s right that some infinities are larger than others. I wanted her to be wrong but right because that’s how we muddle through as observers of the universe - forging meaning where we can find it; from fact and fiction alike. And as my brain drowned in jetlag, I thought of the months I lived here, (Amsterdam) so much of that time I was sick and crippled with anxiety, but all I can think about now as night fell, was how much you can love made-up people; and how much you can miss them.
– John Green, about Amsterdam and TFIOS (via eastrum)
You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you.
– John Green The Fault in Our Stars
