Quotes About Imperial Affliction

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

John Green

#5. 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

#6. I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#7. Too often we seem to have the idea that submission to Scripture means that we first come to see it as reasonable and then submit to it, but submission means, in part, a willingness to bend the knee in faith to things that are not fully resolved in our mind.

James C. Wilhoit

#8. Lenny's face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

Lynne Rae Perkins

#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. Love is something you have or don't have. Love is like a fever.

Corey Ann Haydu

#11. Our covetousness will put us under unbelievable bondages

Sunday Adelaja

#12. A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child.

Jen Hatmaker

#13. I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college, though, they sent me my draft notice, stuck me in officers training, and I ended up on the continent for twelve years. My life went by like a dream.

Haruki Murakami

#14. Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.

Jennifer Allwood