Quotes About Esther Earl

#1. My friendship with Esther Earl began, as so many great love stories do, at a Harry Potter convention.

John Green

#2. I want to make a difference, to help someone. And I don't know how.

Esther Earl

#3. She was a champion of the lonely, a welcomer of strangers, an inviter.

Esther Earl

#4. I know I always carry her with me, and to have a piece of her grace shine through me is a gift I will continually strive to earn.

Esther Earl

#5. It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.

Hugh Prather

#6. Do you deserve truth? You sure seek it, but do you deserve it? If you want to see real things burning you first have to reach up to the height of the fire.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. We live in a world defined by its boundaries: You cannot travel faster than the speed of light. You must and will die. You cannot escape these boundaries. But the miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

Esther Earl

#8. One day I realized, without God, nothing matters. So, I asked Him into my heart.

Esther Earl

#9. Normal?! What the heck is normal? Healthy is, I guess, my definition of it. Apparently.

Esther Earl

#10. Isn't it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

Esther Earl

#11. And I realize now that that was ... that's the best way to love someone. Hold them close, know that you're loved, let it wash over you

Esther Earl

#12. Ohioans need peace of mind that the water coming out of their tap is safe. It's as simple as that.

Rob Portman

#13. I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.

Reese Hoffa

#14. Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.

George Herbert

#15. When loved ones die, people always say, "Don't be sad. I'm sure they would have wanted you to be happy." I'm sure that's true. But let's be realistic here, people also want to be missed. It is every person's nightmare to leave the world behind as if they had never been there at all.

Esther Earl

#16. I'm not sure if it was entirely sadness that caused the tears, but there was so much love. And that's all that mattered. Despite the fear, despite the sadness, despite the pain, there was love.

Esther Earl

#17. I always called her Star. I always called her Estee. And Grace was just the reminder we didn't want to forget that it's all about grace. It's all about the fact that we don't deserve these good things, but they're ours anyway, to enjoy and to share and to delight in.

Wayne Earl

#18. I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don't want you to think of me and feel sad.

Esther Earl

#19. Just be happy, and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy.

Esther Earl

#20. Esther was uncommon not because she was sick but because she was Esther, and she did not exist so that the rest of us could learn Important Lessons about Life.The meaning of her life-likethe meaning of any life- is a maddeningly ambiguous question shrouded in uncertainty

John Green

#21. Saying you love someone is a good thing.

Esther Earl

#22. I forget, because it's hard to realize that the same person who gives you so much love, and to whom you give so much in return, can go through the kinds of pain and suffering that nothing you do can alleviate.

Esther Earl

#23. If you haven't done something amazing, don't forget to try. the worst that can happen is you fail, and then you can just try again until you succeed. those words don't work on me now, but just try to remember them

Esther Earl

#24. God is the reason I'm surviving, but he's sure used you in my life wonderfully. I love you.

Esther Earl

#25. I feel very lucky to know you - and as far as I have seen, to know you is literally to love you.

Esther Earl

#26. I'm worried about my friend not being imagined complexly enough.

Esther Earl

#27. We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

Eugene O'Neill

#28. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.

Esther Earl

#29. I like music, indie stuff, but I don't like liking music that other people like.

Esther Earl

#30. When asked the inevitable question of "Does the ball ever talk back?" Mark answered, "The only time that happens is when it's going over the fence, it yells back to me that I shouldn't have thrown that pitch.

Doug Wilson

#31. Bible's Song of Solomon, "Love is strong as death." Or perhaps even stronger.

Esther Earl

#32. And I remember telling God that whatever happens, happens. I remember telling myself He's in control.

Esther Earl

#33. I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.

Steven Moffat

#34. Love and hope are conjoined, if you separate one, you kill the other. If hope survives then love endures. Where even a sliver of love exists, the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.

Esther Earl