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what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.
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She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.
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Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.
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It's not fair, I said. It's just so goddamned unfair. The world, he said, is not a wishgranting factory.
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He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
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You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
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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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I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?
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For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
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I think inspiration is always around it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.
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They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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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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But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
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In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.
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When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.
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You used, he said, and then took a sharp breath, to call me Augustus.
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We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth
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If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.
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Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.
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