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effyeahnerdfighters:

“I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. ‘The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.’ That’s God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren’t lost.” - John Green
submission from thingsthatmakeyousayhay

The whole story of this quote: As I recall, it ended up being the last line of An Imperial Affliction, the fictional novel Hazel Lancaster loves in The Fault in Our Stars. But the line is actually from the first not-terrible short story I ever wrote, “Double On-Call,” which is about a young chaplain spending 48 straight hours with the family of a 3-year-old who has been seriously injured by her 19-year-old father. At the very end of the story, the chaplain drives home, the risen sun too bright in his losing eyes. I decided to repurpose that line for An Imperial Affliction. (Actually, almost every ‘quote’ from An Imperial Affliction is something I wrote somewhere else for some other reason.)
A bunch of stuff went into that quote, I guess: Frank Sinatra’s last words were “I’m losin’,” and I’ve always found that really beautiful. Plus, Christian theologians have for nearly 200 years used the risen sun as a metaphor for the risen Son. 
But most importantly, there is the idea—returned to in the novel over and over again—that the things that hurt us are often the things that help us, and the whole dichotomy between creation and destruction is totally false, I think. We live in a universe that seems committed to making and unmaking all that is possible, you know?
Anyway, in all the time (12 years?) I’ve lived with those words, I certainly never imagined them on anyone’s back. I hope this is not your first tattoo, OP, but I am honored.
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effyeahnerdfighters:

“I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. ‘The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.’ That’s God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren’t lost.” - John Green

submission from thingsthatmakeyousayhay

The whole story of this quote: As I recall, it ended up being the last line of An Imperial Affliction, the fictional novel Hazel Lancaster loves in The Fault in Our Stars. But the line is actually from the first not-terrible short story I ever wrote, “Double On-Call,” which is about a young chaplain spending 48 straight hours with the family of a 3-year-old who has been seriously injured by her 19-year-old father. At the very end of the story, the chaplain drives home, the risen sun too bright in his losing eyes. I decided to repurpose that line for An Imperial Affliction. (Actually, almost every ‘quote’ from An Imperial Affliction is something I wrote somewhere else for some other reason.)

A bunch of stuff went into that quote, I guess: Frank Sinatra’s last words were “I’m losin’,” and I’ve always found that really beautiful. Plus, Christian theologians have for nearly 200 years used the risen sun as a metaphor for the risen Son. 

But most importantly, there is the idea—returned to in the novel over and over again—that the things that hurt us are often the things that help us, and the whole dichotomy between creation and destruction is totally false, I think. We live in a universe that seems committed to making and unmaking all that is possible, you know?

Anyway, in all the time (12 years?) I’ve lived with those words, I certainly never imagined them on anyone’s back. I hope this is not your first tattoo, OP, but I am honored.

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This is the tumblr of John Green, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and half of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. I am also the co-creator of the vlogbrothers youtube channel.

I am best known on tumblr for a drizzle/hurricane metaphor.

You can ask me questions only if you agree not to get mad if I don't answer.

FAQ:
1. Why is your tumblr name fishingboatproceeds?
2. What does DFTBA stand for?
3. Do you and Hank consider yourself nerdfighters?
4. So, does the actual John Green run this tumblr, or is it run by an assistant?
5. Would you release a book that isn't YA?
6. Would you ever write a YA book with an adult in a key role?
7. How do I become a nerdfighter?
8. What's the story behind Pizza John?
9. How do you pronounce bufriedo?
10. How do you feel about the TFiOS movie rights being optioned?
11. Do you get a thrill from killing your characters?
12. "You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them." 
Can you talk about this?
13. What's this drizzle/hurricane metaphor that you're best known for on tumblr?

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