Quotes Compiled

“My favorite book, by a wide margin, was An Imperial Affliction, but I didn’t like to tell people about it. Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal.
It wasn’t even that the book was so good or anything; it was that the author, Peter Van Houten, seemed to understand me in weird and impossible ways. An Imperial Affliction was my book in the way my body was my body and my thoughts were my thoughts. (33-34)” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.” Dan Marquis via The Oxymoronica

“You can’t make anything idiot because idiots are so ingenious.” R. Burns via The Oxymoronica

“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction” Pablo Picasso via The Oxymoronica

“We sat in silence for a few moments, looking at our tea but neither of us drinking it. We just let it steep, darker and darker, like our thoughts (243).” Maureen Johnson, The Name of the Star

“Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness (8).” Chang - Tzu — Oxymoronica