(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not s — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.) You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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