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By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, I won't be a mom anymore. It gutted me pretty badly.
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I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.
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I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.
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I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!
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They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.
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Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.
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You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home? No, sir, Gus said. We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.
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Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.
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... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.
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Easy comfort isn't comforting
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When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.
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We all romanticize the people we adore.
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. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.
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Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.
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I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
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We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.
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So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.
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I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.
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Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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