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Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.
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But it is a pipe. No, it's not, I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.
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I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.
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sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.
John Green
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
John Green
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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I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.
John Green
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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You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.
John Green
He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her
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I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.
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Need is never a good basis for any relationship.
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But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?
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A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.
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People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'?
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See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.
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So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
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