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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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I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.
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I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
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On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.
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What matters to you defines your mattering.
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There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
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Augustus, I said. Really. You don't have to do this. Sure I do, he said. I found my Wish. God, you're the best, I told him. I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel, he answered.
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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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But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?
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The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.
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My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.
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Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.
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You used, he said, and then took a sharp breath, to call me Augustus.
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Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper
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You will go to the paper towns and never come back.
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Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.
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Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.
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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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