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Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

John Green
Pain, Joy, Broccoli
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.28, Penguin

Without pain, we couldn't know joy.

John Green
Pain, Joy, Without Pain
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.155, Penguin

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

John Green
Sadness, Joy, Illness
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.64, Penguin

It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.

John Green
Rising Up, Joy, Looks

You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

John Green
Baby, Sadness, Joy
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, Penguin

I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.

John Green
Pain, Thinking, Joy
Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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