Quote by John Green

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after

Summary

The quote reflects a profound sense of irony and frustration regarding the timing of a diagnosis. The speaker mentions that they received it shortly after reaching a crucial milestone of womanhood, their first period. The phrase "Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die" highlights the bitter contrast between the celebratory nature of the milestone and the harsh reality of an impending death. The quote encapsulates the feelings of disbelief and sadness experienced by the speaker, and the injustice of receiving unfortunate news at a significant moment in their life.

Topics

Death Cancer

By John Green

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Hope

No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keep

No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.

Oppression

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire --the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.

Helen P. Blavatsky

Risk

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kin

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

Samuel L. Jackson

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

Truth

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Change

The child who desires education will be bettered by it the c

The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Death is a fearful thing

Death is a fearful thing

William Shakespeare

Fear

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Megan Whalen Turner

Inspirational

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, reveng

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

Anger

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of hi

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry