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What matters to you defines your mattering.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain. I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.
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...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
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She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.
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There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
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You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
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There's not even real *popularity* at my school. That, Coli said emphatically, is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.
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Okay is BURSTING with sensuality
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He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!
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From the front Rdar announces, Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car? Whenever I eat a GoFast bar, Ben says, I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes.
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I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.
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I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.
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My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.
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Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe.
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Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.
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The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.
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And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.
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I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
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