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There's not even real *popularity* at my school. That, Coli said emphatically, is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.
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it is the nature of stars to cross
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But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.
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When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.
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Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!
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I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.
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I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.
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I have an Augustus Waters fetish.
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The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.
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We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?
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It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.
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Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.
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I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.
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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
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I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.
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