Weird questions about ducks

If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of greater good, you know? And I fear that I won’t get a life or a death that means anything.

- Augustus Waters (The Fault in Our Stars by John Green)

(Source: london-dreamer)

The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.

- John Green (via saddest-summer)