Commonplace June 24, 2014

"It's incredibly difficult in that situation to express mutual gratitude, because it's an inherently heightened and unnatural dynamic in which it's very difficult for either of us to imagine the other as a complicated human being going through all the things that complicated humans go through." - John Green (reddit post by John Green responding to a woman who hugged him at a musical and then felt bad because she heard third-hand that John Green hated it, which he did not)

It's very difficult for either of us to imagine the other as a complicated human being going through all the things that complicated humans go through.