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You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?
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He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.
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Something invisible snapped inside her.
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I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.
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So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
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And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
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