Monday, November 4, 2013

little infinity


“I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others.

Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set.

I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.

I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”

—John Green

My favorite part from TFiOS. And, oh, I hope I can think like Hazel Grace :” to be grateful for her little infinity.

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