Augustus Waters was the Mayor of the Secret City of Cancervania, and he is not replaceable… Other people will be able to tell you funny stories about Gus, because he was a funny guy, but let me tell you a serious one: A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heartbroken 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 and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even begin to imagine yet!’

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via johngreenismypatronus)

034. I’m still not over TFiOS

God will punish the wicked. And before he does, we will.

John Green Out of Context (via johngreenoutofcontext)

effyeahnerdfighters:

Life is Weird. Also beautiful.

In which John Green describes his years-long relationship with Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which began with the James Joyce novel Ulysses and now includes the top two spots of the new York Times bestseller list.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

You probably won’t die ALONE. There will probably be a nurse in the room.

John Green offers a reassuring thought (via elaisrarelyfunny)

On the legacy of John and Hulk Green

Yogi: John Green is honestly such an inspiration
Aífe/איפה: He is such an amazing person
Yogi: imagine the amount of dedication that goes into building nerdfighteria, uploading videos twice a week for years and making each one more interesting than the last, all the while writing such a beautiful book and having a family
Aífe/איפה: He’s up there with the likes of Stephen fry. I admire him so much
Yogi: Yeah
Yogi: and his brother Hulk or something is good as well I guess
Yogi: (kidding)
Corin ❄: (he’s actually terrible)
Yogi: (mean)
Aífe/איפה: xD

On TFiOS and queen-cakes

I have not finished reading TFios.

Spoilers ahoy

Augustus Waters is dying and Hazel Grace Langchester is dying and I am dying and you are dying and thats life.

So I paused in reading about Augustus dying because earlier today I made some raspberry buns.

I made the buns because my sister felt like something sweet and I felt like creating. I made buns because I am excellent at making buns and I wanted to muck about with icing and colouring and raspberry jam a little bit.

I wasn’t going to eat any of the buns because buns are unhealthy and I’m done with unhealth and I’m on a roll.

Admittedly, as much as death awaits us all, a raspberry bun won’t hasten it.

One day I’ll be dead and you’ll be dead and that’s a terrible, terrifying truth. But today, we are alive. We’ll all  be dead in 100 years, but right now we are alive.

And I am healthy enough. My prospects are ok, my hopes for the future are achievable, if uncertain.

And I am going to swim more often because I enjoy swimming, and one day when I’m older I’ll own some chickens, because I like chickens.

People have died, people are dying, people will continue to die and one day one of those people will be me. 

But right now, I am going to take a break from reading this beautiful, heart-rending book and I’m going to have a cup of tea and a bun, because there’s a little bit of raspberry jam in the bottom of each one and that will be delicious and I made icing out of soya spread instead of dairy butter and I want to see what it tastes like.

Right now I am not dead in a world that contains hope and raspberry buns.

And I’m going to damn well enjoy it.