Quotes About An Imperial Affliction

#1. Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

Vincent Van Gogh

#2. A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God.

Neem Karoli Baba

#3. Grand," he said. "I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting to call you until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction." (He really said "in re". That boy.)

John Green

#4. Business is a basketball game. The more tricks you know, the more points you score.

Ehab Atalla

#5. I believe in aging gracefully.

Tatjana Patitz

#6. Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

Henny Youngman

#7. I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.

John Green

#8. It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.

Emily Blackwell

#9. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

John Green

#10. I reread An Imperial Affliction until Mom woke up and rolled over toward me around six. She nuzzled her head against my shoulder, which felt uncomfortable and vaguely Augustinian.

John Green

#11. I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

Misty Upham

#12. Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.

Holly Madison

#13. Love scrubs the worst stains clean. Anyway, there can be no retreat in the face of evil, only resistance. And commitment.

Dean Koontz

#14. Pain demands to be felt, he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction.

John Green

#15. I am generally ashamed to walk out in new clothes. And why am I ashamed? Is it because I don't want to embarrass the others who don't have new things? Or perhaps because a new coat makes you stand out, and you seem to be clothes and nothing else.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#16. Competition isn't a bad thing. Somebody can always do it better and that somebody is you.

Linda Rawson

#17. If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#18. Hazel Grace," he said.
"Hi," I said. "How are you?"
"Grand," he said. "I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction."
(He said "in re." He really did. That boy.)

John Green

#19. It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

Laura Marling