Nerdfighteria Quotes & Sayings

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr. — John Green

I want this girl. I want her for my own. End of story. The world can fuck off for all I care. She's mine. — Kendall Ryan

I told him not to go to sea. I'm your mother, I said. The sea won't love you like I love you, she's cruel. But he said, Oh Mother, I need to see the world. I need to see the sun rise in the tropics, and watch the Northern Lights dance in the Arctic sky, and most of all I need to make my fortune and then, when it's made I will come back to you, and build you a house, and you will have servants, and we will dance, mother, oh how we will dance... — Neil Gaiman

When your words are futile, you're better off keeping them to yourself, or never even thinking them in the first place. — Tom Perrotta

I knew damn well if Lucy broke up with me I'd still love her until I turned to dust. — Alyxandra Harvey

Growing up, money is important. And now I have a career where I'm making enough money to live. But I really want to give it to my parents, my family, charities, and people around me. — Tyler Joseph

I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them. — Barry Humphries

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.
[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012] — John Green

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent. — Bill Vaughan

War is just a racket ... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. — Smedley Butler

The more everyone knows just what a nerdfighter is, the more the definition hardens. The most beautiful and intriguing parts of any identity tend to be the fluid ones. And the young people nerdfighteria attracts, after all, are often as confused and lonely and frustrated as they are because they don't fit into the boxes, a problem that can hardly be resolved by creating a new one. — Michelle Dean

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. — Francis Bacon

It's like our whole culture is based on frivolity, and I never noticed before." -Cara — Melissa Landers

Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Turn on the lights; I do not want to go home in the dark — John Green

In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.
One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, we are also living the stories we planted - knowingly or unknowingly - in ourselves. We live the stories that either give our lives meaning, or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change or lives. — Ben Okri

The Catt sees not the mouse ever. — George Herbert