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Feb 24 '12
“Knightstown has a present and a future as well as its past, which is something that people tend to forget about small towns in America. Some day that little girl will decide if she wants to be part of this town’s future, or if she wants to indulge in the great American past-time of lighting out for the territories. But we don’t yet know what she’ll decide, or what it’ll mean for Knightstown…I think in the end all we can do is be kind to each other. We don’t know what’s ahead, for us, or for our places.”
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-John Green

Have I mentioned that John Green and I have a lot of the same buttons/hang-ups in the things we like to contemplate in our writing? “Seeking a great perhaps” and “Lighting out to the territories”? Part of the reason I became so entranced by these concepts as he explores them in his books and in his videos is that I’ve spent my entire life extraordinarily preoccupied with both of these things. In fact, I’d say I’ve lived approximately 90% of my life so far in the state of thinking of my future in an undoubtedly nostalgic way—something he talks about in Looking for Alaska.

This is to say: Keep on keeping on, John Green. You rock. You also have a very impressive puff.

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