“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.” ― John Green, Paper Towns I can't really explain the way I was feeling when I was 19 and trying to see the world, for the first time, as it really was. A huge puzzle. Something interesting happens when you leave a long-term religion. It's a mind-altering experience. All of the sudden I wanted to learn everything and anything about the world. ...
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