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Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
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He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
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We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait.
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You know what ambrosia tastes like? It tastes like all the things you can't eat on Weight Watchers. Cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, regular freaking ice cream instead of, like, ice cream that's made out of air and human hope.
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I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.
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It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.
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I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.
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I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
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What happens in the band room stays in the band room.
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Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.
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All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.
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The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
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It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.
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And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.
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