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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Something invisible snapped inside her.
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Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them, I said. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh? I nodded into his shirt. Gives you an idea how I feel about you, he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
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At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.
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What matters to you defines your mattering.
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I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?
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These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.
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We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.
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Suffering is universal.
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