Michaela

“Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist."
"If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree."
"I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, 'I have wonderful news!' and I was like, 'I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now,' and Gus said, 'This is wonderful news you want to hear,' and I asked him, 'Fine, what is it?' and he said, 'You are going to live a good long life filled with great and terrible moments you cannot even imagine yet!”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars