“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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