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They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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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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He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.
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And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
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Headline? he asked. 'Swing Set Needs Home,' I said. 'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,' he said. 'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,' I said.
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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.
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The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.
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But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness
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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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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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The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.
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Oh, my god, Augustus said. i can't believe i have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes. i was thirteen, i said again, although of course i was only thinking crush crush crush crush crush. I was flattered but changed the subject immediately.
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