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Almost done with this book and it hasn‘t been twenty four hours yet. I‘m loving it almost as much as I love TFiOS… Davis is alright but Augustus Waters will always be superior. John Green is one of the best YA authors out there people.

There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn‘t.

[…] and no one ever says goodbye unless they want to see you again.

Love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift.
You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can live and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.

To be alive is to be missing.

“You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame, you know? Maybe you don‘t choose what‘s in the picture, but you decide on the frame”

“The problem with happy endings,” I said, “is that they‘re either not really happy, or not really endings, you know?”

Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it.

You‘re both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You‘re the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You‘re the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody‘s something, but you are also your you.

Tonight, under the sky, she asked me, “Why do all the ones about me have quotes from The Tempest? Is it because we are shipwrecked?”
Yes. Yes, it is because we are shipwrecked.

Our hearts were broken in the same places. That‘s something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself.

But she doesn‘t remind me of the past, for some reason. She feels present tense.

“I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am. Descartes wanted to know if you could really know that anything was real, but he believed his ability to doubt reality proved that, while it might not be real, he was. You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less.”

It‘s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it‘s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. You don‘t get to be in anything else—in friendship or in anger or in hope. All you can be is in love.

Maybe I‘m just a lie that I‘m whispering to myself.

Maybe you are what you can‘t not be.

No one ever says goodbye unless they want to see you again.

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over the other” — William James
I don‘t know what superpower William James enjoyed, but I can no more choose my thoughts than choose my name.

“Does it hurt?” he asked.
For some reason, I wanted to tell him the truth. “Whether it hurts is kind of irrelevant.”
“That‘s a pretty good life motto,” he said.

John Green has done it again! Loved this and absolutely could not put it down, it‘s actually a crime I didn‘t read this earlier. Loved the characters and the narrative tone of voice. We clearly see how mental illness strains the relationships between the main character and her loved ones. At the same time John Green does a wonderful job of showing that it is possible to have happy and fulfilling relationships with it.
4⭐️

If you follow John Green on Tiktok, you know that he is incredibly intelligent and insightful. That shines through in his writing. He has such a beautiful point of view, and way of describing things, that is frankly quite poetic. I generally borrow my ebooks from the library, and if I like a book enough, I will buy a hard copy. This is one of those. Must annotate!!

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This book made me question my lives purpose

The characters are going through so much but their feelings are written down in an understanding way even though they are difficult to understand, which I LOVE.

Turtles All the Way Down is a young adult fiction novel following Aza Holmes, a teenager struggling to cope with her OCD and anxiety. She finds herself in a situation where one of her old friend‘s father has gone missing mysteriously. Because Aza knows the family, she could potentially assist in finding him for great compensation.

I‘ve been in a reading rut and my #Roll100 board has noticed. I decided to help “clean off” my shelf this month and conveniently hoards of them were also on my #Roll100 list! Hoping to really do some damage with #bookspin #doublespin and #Roll100 this month to get back on track!

“I kept thinking about how sky is a singular noun, as if it's one thing. But the sky isn't one thing. The sky is everything. And last night, it was enough.” - John Green

#Canvas
#InQuotes

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another john green masterpiece

“Your now is not your forever.”

I loved this book! So many thought provoking quotes! Stunning and hard to read at times… touches on many mental health challenges. One of the few YA novels that I really enjoyed! Loved Asa and Daisy! I may read this one again soon 🧡 🐢

#Forever
#InQuotes

I had bailed on thus one awhile back, but decided to give it another try after seeing these turtles all the way down a log on my walk last week. Seemed like a sign. I'm glad I did. I thought Green did an effective job of showing the challenges and frustrations of dealing with intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. It is ultimately a hopeful message about having a fulfilling life with all of its ups and downs. #mentalhealth

I have started a faculty book club at work this year and Turtles All the Way Down is our first book. Which means I probably ought to start reading it... 🤣

Some Goodwill finds.

I read this book about 3 years ago. So I re-read it this week… my 1 star rating still stands. There‘s not really a plot and the only point to this book is that life goes on and we exist.

This is a book I‘m ashamed I still haven‘t read it yet and there‘s a lot of books that I feel that way about too. I‘m ashamed I haven‘t read this one because I‘ve owned it since it was published in 2017. I bought it because the synopsis sounded interesting to me and I love John Green‘s writing. I remember when there was a lot of hype around this book in the book community. I‘ve read 4 of his books so far and I enjoyed them.

Could this be the same turtle revisiting me from June 2020? I love turtles 🐢 ❤️ the markings look the same!

Smashed in one day

Starting a new book, Turtles All the Way Down by John Green. I'm so excited for this one. 😌📚🐢

I'm on my way to collecting every book John Green has written so far, this will be my 2nd one read. Next I'm starting Will Grayson, Will Grayson, if anyone has heard of that one! So excited!

#green #wishesandblessings @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

That would be your soul mate!

I‘ve read books by this author before so I feel pretty sure I‘ll enjoy reading this book. I just bailed on another book that was too disjointed for me. If this is merely a linear story, there should be smooth sailing ahead. 😊

I really liked it. I saw myself in this book a lot so I appreciated that. The mystery part of it I was not a fan of.

I think for anyone who suffers from spiraling, this may help your friends and family understand what it‘s like to be stuck in you. As someone who has panic attacks, this was real. This was my brain, at war with itself, where logic does not make sense once the spiral has started to churn. Honestly, a fictional masterpiece about mental health. #bookspin hosted by @TheAromaofBooks and second book for #litsysummercampreadathon by @ImperfectCJ

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Prompt: Halle Berry