Categories | Literature & Fiction |
Author | John Green |
Publisher | Penguin Books; Reprint edition (June 11, 2019) |
Language | English |
Paperback | 320 pages |
Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
Dimensions |
5.6 x 0.67 x 8.3 inches |
I. Book introduction
Turtles All the Way Down is a young adult drama novel written by American author John Green published on October 10, 2017, by Dutton Books. It is Green’s fifth solo novel and his seventh overall. The novel debuted at number 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in the category of “Young Adult Hardcover Books” and stayed at the top for 15 weeks and remained on the list for 62 weeks.
Plot summary
Aza Holmes is a 16-year-old high school student living in Indianapolis who struggles with OCD, which often manifests as a fear of the human microbiome. Constantly worried about infection, particularly by C. diff, she repeatedly opens a never-fully-healed callus on her finger in an effort to drain out what she believes are pathogens. Throughout the book, Aza is accompanied by two close friends: Mychal Turner, an aspiring artist, and her best friend Daisy Ramirez, who writes Star Wars fan fiction.
One day at school, Daisy discovers that Russell Pickett, a billionaire construction magnate and the father of one of Aza’s old friends, Davis Pickett, has gone missing in the wake of corporate crime investigations on September 9. Russell’s wife had died years prior, so Russell’s disappearance leaves Davis and his younger brother Noah with no formal guardian. Tempted by the reward of $100,000 for information leading to Pickett’s arrest, Daisy takes Aza on a search for the missing billionaire. After canoeing down the White River and sneaking onto the Pickett property, they copy a picture of Pickett that was taken shortly after the night he disappeared from Davis’s night-vision camera, and are caught by a security guard who brings them to meet Davis.
To persuade the two girls to stop pursuing the elder Pickett, Davis gives Aza $100,000 taken from his father’s various stashes around the guest house, which she splits with Daisy. After the meeting, Davis and Aza begin dating and, at the same time, Daisy becomes romantically involved with Mychal. As time passes, Aza comes to believe that she cannot overcome her anxiety, preventing her from ever having a normal relationship with Davis. She finds numerous blog posts written by him about his feelings on both his father’s disappearance and his relationship with her.
Aza reads Daisy’s fan fiction for the first time and discovers that Daisy has been using it as a vent for her frustrations with Aza. She continues to spiral into a panic attack which results in her drinking hand sanitizer and passing out. Their friendship deteriorates, culminating in a heated argument while Aza is driving on the highway that results in a car accident. Aza spends eight days in the hospital, during which she again has a panic attack, due to her fears of C. diff, and drinks sanitizer again, this time being caught by her mother. She recovers and goes on to rekindle her friendship with Daisy. Aza also begins to improve her abilities to manage her compulsions by focusing on routine (include fulfilling her promise to Noah of help finding his father), practicing exposure and response prevention (ERP), and taking new prescriptions.
Later, at an underground art exhibition inside an unfinished drainage tunnel system off of Pogue’s Run that Russell Pickett’s company was responsible for, Aza and Daisy go exploring on their own. After noticing the stench of putrefaction emanating from the area they realize that this was where Russell Pickett had run off to, and they suspect that the billionaire has already died. Aza tells Davis of their discovery, and he makes an anonymous tip to the police. The authorities locate the body, which is later reported to be that of Russell Pickett.
Given the loss of their parents and home, added to the fact that their father had left his entire fortune to his pet tuatara, Davis and Noah decide to relocate to Colorado, where they have rented a house and will be attending school. As Davis and Aza say their goodbyes, Aza reflects on the open possibilities of her future.
About the Author (John Green)
John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author, YouTuber, podcaster, and philanthropist. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. John Green’s rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market. John Green is also well known for his work in online video, most notably his YouTube ventures with his brother Hank Green.
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Green was raised in Orlando, Florida, before attending boarding school outside of Birmingham, Alabama. He attended Kenyon College, graduating with a double major in English and religious studies in 2000. Green then spent six months as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital. He reconsidered his path and began working at Booklist in Chicago while writing his first novel. His debut novel Looking for Alaska (2005) was awarded the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award. While living in New York City, Green published his second novel, An Abundance of Katherines (2006). Starting on January 1, 2007, John and his brother Hank launched the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel, a series of vlogs submitted to one another on alternating weekdays; the videos spawned an active online-based community called Nerdfighteria and an annual telethon-style fundraiser called Project for Awesome, both of which have persisted and grown over time.
John Green moved back to Indianapolis in 2007, and published three novels over the next three years: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (2008, with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle); his third solo novel, Paper Towns (2008); and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010, with David Levithan). From 2010 to 2013, John and Hank launched several online video projects, including VidCon, an annual conference for the online video community, and Crash Course (2011–present), a wide-ranging educational channel. Green’s 2012 novel, The Fault in Our Stars, and the 2014 film adaptation were massive commercial and critical successes, leading to several other film and television adaptations of his work. He was included in Time magazine’s 2014 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Green’s subsequent projects, his novel Turtles All the Way Down (2017) and The Anthropocene Reviewed (2018–2021), dealt more directly with his anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorder. The Anthropocene Reviewed began as a podcast in January 2018, with Green reviewing different facets of the Anthropocene on a five-star scale. The podcast was then adapted into The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (2021), his first nonfiction book. Since the mid-2010s, John Green has been a prominent advocate for global health causes: he is a trustee for Partners In Health (PIH), supporting their goal of reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, and has worked with PIH and a number of organizations in fighting tuberculosis worldwide. Green’s second nonfiction book, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, is set to be released in March 2025.
II. Reviewer: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
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1. HAILEY reviews Turtles All the Way Down
The Short
Trigger warnings: anxiety, OCD
Writing: 5 stars
Characters: 4.75 stars
Plot: 4.5 stars
Originality: 4 stars
(all out of 5 stars)
The Long
It’s hard to believe I just read a new John Green (JG from now on) book. My mind can’t really wrap around that. (Especially given where I was 5 years ago, not even knowing BookTube existed, now I can’t imagine my life without BookTube and being Hailey in Bookland). But it was a pleasure to read his writing again. He is extremely talented. I was super nervous going into this admittedly. After the smash success of TFIOS I couldn’t imagine a more high pressure situation. Especially as I haven’t absolutely loved all of his novels, I just didn’t know where this one would fall for me. But I’m so happy that I loved it. It’s definitely my favourite YA book on mental illness that I’ve ever read.
What sets JG apart and makes him, IMO, a pioneer in the YA genre, is the fact that he writes knowledgable teenage characters. He doesn’t discount teenagers as unintelligent due to their developing brains. He recognizes that teenagers, IRL, are able to comprehend complex concepts. (This may seem obvious, but I read a book on writing books for young readers recently and it emphasizes the fact that you have to use the most simplistic language possible so young teenage minds can understand it. BS. Teenagers are not dumb).
Because of this, his characters are so startlingly relatable. I think Aza is an especially relatable character for me with her struggles with anxiety. The way JG describes her experiences with anxiety spoke to me so intensely. Specifically the metaphor of the spiral. Blew my mind in all honesty. JG definitely has a talent for metaphors, I never get sick of it. He’s always had a way of finding the perfect words to describe that which seems indescribable. Seeing him use this technique regarding mental illness was fascinating. I think if you do, or ever have, suffered from mental illness, you will vastly appreciate his narrative.
I found this story to be very different than JG’s other novels. Not in a bad way at all, but the plot was much more subtle. There are two plots happening simultaneously really, one internally and one externally. You think you’re following the one and then it turns out the other is the central focus. The way the two were interwoven was genius.
I think this has been written in a way that will appeal to both the next generation of YA readers as well as the aging generation of YA readers. Typically JG’s novels have the romance as a main focal point, and they really are some of my favourite romances, but here the romance takes a back seat. The front seat is occupied by Aza’s own personal mental health journey. It was such a nice change. (That’s not to say there is no romance, it’s there but it’s just not the main topic).
Overall, this made me SO happy that John Green is returning to the world of YA. It was the most authentic representation of mental illness I’ve ever read and I’m so glad I went in with an open mind. You can tell he is writing about something he’s extremely familiar with. I can’t wait to see what he comes out with next (I hope he has plans to write more!)
2. ZOE reviews Turtles All the Way Down
Even though I just finished this book, I already know it’s one that will stick with me for years to come. I can’t fully express how cathartic this book was. I finally saw parts of myself represented in a novel – the parts that I was ashamed of and pretended didn’t exist. This is by far my favorite John Green novel. I can’t say much more about this because I’m still sobbing over it. Just read it, please.
3. MARIA reviews Turtles All the Way Down
4.4/5 Stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
“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.”
GUYS GUYS! I FEEL THE FEELS I FEEL THEM! GUYS!
This book this FUCKING BOOK. I devoured it in under a day! I couldn’t leave it down even though I had studying to do. I was there, with Aza, feeling what she was feeling, understanding even though I don’t suffer from it, wanting to “heal” her even though I know I couldn’t. This book was so deep (too deep for teenagers but that’s John Green for ya) and it entailed so many excellent quotes that cut deep into me. The other characters were brilliant, too (even though Daisy just pissed me off at times), the Star Wars references were cute, being a SW nerd myself, I relate (even though the Rey x Chewbacca parts were sort of weird) and I think he did his research a lot for this book. 6 years is a lot of time and he really produced amazing work out of them.
I’m so looking forward to the movie I heard that is coming out, (a John Green book not becoming a movie would be a first) I hope they do it justice. It was the first of his books I read before the movie comes out not because of the movie so I’m really curious to see what their angle will be about it.
ANYWAY, I’LL PROBABLY BE THINKING ABOUT THIS BOOK FOR A WHILE SO K BYE!
4. BILL GATES reviews Turtles All the Way Down
When Melinda and I did an event with John Green in New York a couple years ago, we knew we had to bring our youngest daughter, Phoebe, along. He is one of her favorite authors, and she’s converted our entire family to fans of his books.
Before we went on stage, John pulled Phoebe aside to share a secret with her: the plot of his new book. He made her promise not to share it with anyone, and she stayed true to her word for nearly two years. She wouldn’t even tell Melinda and me!
Phoebe doesn’t have to keep the secret any longer, because that book—Turtles All the Way Down—was released late last year.
I’ve read a couple of John’s books and enjoyed each one, and his latest is no exception. Turtles All the Way Down tells the story of Aza Holmes, a high school student from Indianapolis. When a local billionaire goes missing and a $100,000 reward is offered for information about his disappearance, she and her best friend decide to track him down.
Aza’s quest is complicated by the fact that she has obsessive compulsive disorder and severe anxiety. Her struggles are a huge part of the book, as her compulsions constantly get in the way of her social life. John’s writing feels almost claustrophobic when describing Aza’s mental swirl. Some people might find those parts difficult to read, but he really gives you a sense of what it feels like to live with OCD.
Because this is a John Green novel, romance must factor into the equation. Aza begins to develop feelings for Davis, the son of missing billionaire Russell Pickett. He is initially skeptical about her intentions, because he’s used to people sucking up to him to get close to his dad. While I hope I’m nothing like the morally bankrupt Russell—he wants to give all of his money to his pet lizard and was under investigation for fraud and bribery—I think my own kids can relate to some of Davis’ experiences.
John actually talked to Phoebe in New York about what it was like growing up with me as her dad. I asked her to write up her own mini-review now that’s she had a chance to read the book. Here’s what Phoebe had to say:
“For years I have been a loyal John Green fan—devouring his novels in the back of coffee shops, while traveling, and curled up on my couch. Something about the imagery of his books makes me get caught up in the fantasy of his stories, but Turtles All the Way Down hit closer to home for me than the rest. As someone who has struggled with OCD for years, I saw some of myself in the main character. But more than anything, this book struck close to home due to the intriguing character of Davis.
“Never has a book been able to capture so well what it is like to live in the shadow of someone else’s legacy. This story shows how Davis struggled to find his own identity outside of his father’s fame and wealth. Although we have very different relationships with our dads, I recognized his struggle, which also plays into my own life as I find my way in this world. This read was captivating like none other I have read before.”
Phoebe is much closer to John’s intended demographic than I am, but I think readers of all ages will enjoy Turtles All the Way Down. It’s a fun, moving story filled with quirky but relatable characters. Paper Towns is still my favorite John Green book—but my family loved talking about Turtles at the dinner table, and I think yours will, too.
5. TINA TBR ETC reviews Turtles All the Way Down
Really powerful, authentic look into living with OCD
I have to admit that very little about the synopsis was compelling to me. The Best and Most Fearless Friend descriptor for Daisy sounded really juvenile and I wasn’t really feeling the hi jinks that I thought were about to ensue with the billionaire fugitive. Still, I pre-ordered this because I love John Green. I felt nervous for him. He has been so fantastically candid about his own struggles with mental illness (OCD) and on “failing to follow up The Fault In Our Stars”. I knew he’d put a lot into writing this. I suppose the same is true for all authors, but when I get to peek behind the curtain I find it can make me feel compassion toward the author’s process that I might not otherwise feel.
I am happy to report that I thought this book was fantastic. John Green is so incredibly skilled at capturing that feeling of young adulthood. That feeling where there are infinite possibilities ahead of you yet the present is all that you care about. Some criticize his characters and say that they’re unrealistically deep for teenagers, but sometimes I feel like I was at my most thoughtful as a young adult. There is still so much to learn and so much to do as a teen and I remember worrying about the Infinite possibilities.
John Green’s writing is like prose. I gobbled the book up in two days, but immediately after finishing I wanted to page back through and re-read my favorite parts. It is an introspective book. There wasn’t a ton of action and I guessed correctly on some of the major plot points, but that didn’t matter. The power of this book is in the way he describes Aza and what it is like for her to be caught in the ever tightening thought spirals. Page 228 was one of the most terrifying things I’ve read; it truly gave me a bit of anxiety reading it. I am very curious about how individuals who suffer with mental illness are going to find this book. I wonder if it’ll be triggering, or if it will make people feel understood. I suppose it’ll be different for everybody. I also wonder if Green’s own OCD was made better or worse by writing.
Overall, this book is a hit. It’s not likely going to be made into a movie a la The Fault In Our Stars, but in many ways I liked it better than TFIOS. Aside from Aza, most of the characters were flat, but I think that was a choice. Aza isn’t yet at a place where she can get outside of her own head and see other people for who they are, and I found this choice to make the story all the more realistic.
6. BREE DAWN reviews Turtles All the Way Down
I think everyone should read this book
John Green will always have a soft spot in my heart. The Fault in Our Stars was my favorite book for so many years because it captured something special and important about being a teenager.
Turtles All the Way Down does the same thing, but extends it to include something special and important about what it’s like to live with a mental illness.
Aza’s story is painful and, at times, heartbreaking to read. But her story is so important.
When you have an unseen diagnosis, it’s so hard to explain it to someone who doesn’t have it. When you have a mental illness, it’s so hard to know if you’re capable of being loved because it’s so easy to fall into the trap of believing that you are simply too annoying, too irritating, too irrational, too hard to love.
And John Green captures every feeling with all the grace, dignity, and humility that I’ve grown to expect from him.
If you know someone who has a mental illness, please read this book. It will shed light on what it’s like in ways most people can’t explain.
If you have a mental illness, please read this book. It will make you feel seen and understood in ways that you didn’t quite know were possible.
5/5 stars with zero hesitation. Thank you, John Green. <3
Content warnings: Alcohol, blood, car accident, cursing, death of a parent (mentioned), grief, injury/injury detail, medical content, mental illness (the protagonist has OCD and anxiety), panic attacks/disorders, self-harm (a character repeatedly reopens a wound on her finger by cracking the skin with her fingernail), sexual content (several characters kiss, and the protagonist frequently spirals mentally as a result of kissing someone), and vomit.
7. JORDAN NICHOLS reviews Turtles All the Way Down
Amazing Book!
I absolutely loved this book and read it in one sitting. I loved how you were able to see into the main characters head and understand how she was feeling. It gave an incredible portrayal of mental heath, which may be triggering for some people. However, I believe this novel could be an amazing tool to help others understand the gravity of metal health disorders. You should definitely give it a read!!
8. EDDIE DRING reviews Turtles All the Way Down
A Beautiful, Experiential Understanding of OCD
Turtles All the Way Down is a simply fantastic novel, helping the reader understand at an almost experiential level the difficulties of living with OCD. As with John Green’s other books, the writing is quick and funny, with the occasional, rather beautiful sentence or phrase thrown in to make the most of his talents. The characters are charming – though they feel wildly mature for being high school students – and are few enough that you can really dig in and care about each one. The plot is relegated to a backdrop that explains the connections between characters and allows for growth, but isn’t anything overly stimulating. This is the perfect choice for Green’s novel, because the strength of Turtles All the Way Down is undoubtedly in the mind of the protagonist. We hear Aza’s inner monologue through whatever situations we follow her into, seemingly remaining stuck with her inside her own head, worrying again and again if she has contracted a fatal disease. This internal conflict, between her rational brain and her pernicious obsessive thoughts, serves as the main conflict of the book; without a tremendous plot keeping us on the edge of our seat, we instead feel tension through each scene as we wait for her to descend into another thought spiral.
The beauty to it is how real each of these scenes feel. At times, the inner monologue alternates with external reality; at other times it becomes the focus; sometimes it is completely absent. The natural flow of Green’s writing brings us along for the ride, letting ourselves forget the disease in moments of personal importance, just as Aza seems to, only to be surprised by a sudden intrusion at times. This style of inner monologue conveys truths about the disease that can be intellectually understood through other means, but are only properly appreciated (as much as one who does not suffer from such a disease can understand) by being felt so viscerally by the reader. John Green does a masterful job of relying on his own experience to impart this understanding, and the result is a novel that does what all good novels should: increase the reader’s understanding of the human condition.
9. JESSICA reviews Turtles All the Way Down
‘anybody can look at you. its quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.’
oh my gosh. oh my gosh. oh my gosh. i now forgive john green for making me wait 5 years for a new book because this was perfection. honestly, my new favourite of his. i know john green stories tend to be a hit or miss with people, but there is no denying he can write. i loved all the intricacies, and poetic sentences, and overall warm feeling of this book.
i also really appreciate the personal side of this story and could really feel a difference with this book compared to his pervious works. i think greens own struggles with OCD just made the book all the more genuine and honest. and because of this, there couldnt have been a better portrayal of thoughts for a main character who suffers from anxiety and specific triggers.
i thought this was so well done and i loved everything about it!
↠ 5 stars
10. WARDA reviews Turtles All the Way Down
Edit: Well, I cannot stop thinking about this book, and it’s been a few weeks, so that deserves me upping my rating to 5 stars. It has resonated with me more than I thought it would.
“Your now is not your forever.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
Wow. This book was stunning. Hard to read (trigger warnings for OCD and anxiety), but Jesus, did it feel healing at the same time.
John Green wrote the shit out of this book. The way mental health was portrayed through Aza was excruciating, harrowing and educational to read about and it still made me feel that though the stigma might have lessened a bit, the understanding of this subject is narrow.
I felt this book to my core. I was there with Aza when she was spiralling out of control, her mind constantly pulling her in different directions, finding no centre, the constant doubt hurling you further into finding no fixed point, so that you may breathe and focus.
I’ve so much admiration for Green for writing so openly in this book. It was so raw and bleak and the ugly side of mental health truly came to live, because that’s how it is and what it can manifest into.
And though, it may seem difficult to find hope, a way to see the light at the end of the tunnel that seems never-reaching, it is there. It is tangible and can be found.
III. Turtles All the Way Down Quotes by John Green
The best book quotes from Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
“Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.”
“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice in the matter.”
“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
“Your now is not your forever.”
“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn’t matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
“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.”
“no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa”
“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
“The problem with happy endings is that they’re either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
“Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”
“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don’t really get answers. You just get better questions.”
“You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less.”
“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”
“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 in is love.”
“No, it’s not, Holmesy. 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 the frame.”
“One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways pain is the opposite of language.”
“Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out.”
“In the best conversations, you don’t even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can’t visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments”
“Our hearts were broken in the same places. That’s something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself.”
“Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.”
“We always say we are beneath the stars. We aren’t, of course—there is no up or down, and anyway the stars surround us. But we say we are beneath them, which is nice. So often English glorifies the human—we are whos, other animals are that—but English puts us beneath the stars, at least.”
“I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won. Illness is a story told in the past tense.”
“And we’re such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn’t real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with.”
“I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.”
“You just, like, hate yourself? You hate being yourself?”
“There’s no self to hate. It’s like, when I look into myself, there’s no actual me—just a bunch of thoughts and behaviors and circumstances. And a lot of them just don’t feel like they’re mine. They’re not things I want to think or do or whatever. And when I do look for the, like, Real Me, I never find it. It’s like those nesting dolls, you know? The ones that are hollow, and then when you open them up, there’s a smaller doll inside, and you keep opening hollow dolls until eventually you get to the smallest one, and it’s solid all the way through. But with me, I don’t think there is one that is solid. They just keep getting smaller.”“People always talk like there’s a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn’t, at least not for me. I remember what I’ve imagined and imagine what I remember.”
“Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame or whatever they worship, and it all rots them from the inside until nothing is left but the money or the booze or God they though would save them. Adults think they are wielding power, but really power is wielding them.”
“Every loss is unprecedented. You can’t ever know someone else’s hurt, not really—just like touching someone else’s body isn’t the same as having someone else’s body.”
“Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We’re all stuck inside ourselves.”
“It’s turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You’re trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that’s not how it works.”
“She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.”
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