#john-green

[thepersonalwords]

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive

John Green, Looking for Alaska

[raiseyourmindquotes]

Love | I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.

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[jordan-zakarin]

'Paper Towns,' Follow-up to 'The Fault in Our Stars,' Gets an Adventurous First Trailer

The first trailer for Paper Towns, the next big-screen adaptation of a John Green novel, has hit the internet. You can watch it above, and don?t worry about keeping a tissue nearby: Unlike last year?s The Fault in Our Stars ? the mega-hit adaptation of Green?s best-selling YA novel ? Paper Towns probably won?t make you cry.

In the film, Fault alum Nat Wolff plays Quentin, a high school senior who?s living a pretty unremarkable life in Orlando, Florida ? that is, until Margot Roth Spiegelman, his gorgeous, genius, adventurous dream-girl neighbor (played by model and Instagram sensation Cara Delevingne) finally starts paying him some attention.

During a late-night hang-out, the two engage in some vengeful teenaged troublemaking, at one point wrapping Margot?s ex-boyfriend?s car in plastic-wrap. But the next morning, Quentin awakes to find that Margot has vanished, sending him on a clue-filled treasure hunt that ultimately leads him to Algoe, New York, the kind of fictional hamlet from which the book and film take their name (?paper towns,? Margot explains, have ?paper houses and paper people,? where ?everything?s uglier up close?).

20th Century Fox kicked Towns into gear last summer, just as The Fault in Our Stars was on its way to becoming a worldwide phenomenon (the movie grossed $306 million worldwide). The studio even brought back Fault screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber to write the script.

The film is directed by Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank), and co-stars Halston Sage (Neighbors), Austin Abrams (Gangster Squad) and newcomer Justice Smith. Paper Towns hits theaters on July 24.

[jordan-zakarin]

The 'Paper Towns' Movie Won't Have the SeaWorld Scene

Though the big-screen adaptation of Paper Towns promises to be loyal to John Green?s hit 2008 novel, there?s one memorable scene from the book that will be missing from the film: the late night break-in to SeaWorld.

In Green?s book, adventurous high school senior Margo convinces the protagonist and narrator, Quentin, to trudge through a giant moat so that they could sneak into the closed aquatic theme park undetected. It?s an important scene ? Margo convinces Quentin to take a risk for once in his life, and the two later dance in the moonlight ? but Green told Yahoo Movies that it had been excised from the movie, which stars Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne.

?SeaWorld is not in the movie, mostly due to the fact that ? how do I put this ? my relationship with SeaWorld has changed a lot in the last eight years,? Green said during an interview about the film?s trailer. ?Also you don?t have to pay SeaWorld to mention them in a book.?

Presumably, Green is talking about the documentary Blackfish, and allegations of animal abuse by SeaWorld, which have damaged the company?s reputation. Either way, fans of the novel don?t have to worry about missing out on the important relationship development that happens in that scene, even though Shamu will be absent from the proceedings.

?We felt like everything that happened in the SeaWorld scene could happen in another scene, and be just as good,? Green said.

For some hints on which aquatic animals did make the cut for the film, watch our video above.

[eljosell]

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

Paper Towns, John Green

[kitloves-blog-blog]

#TFioS

[asafreen]

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was a time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be a time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.

Hazel Grace, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

[hahahahanah]

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars