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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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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.
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JP shouted, TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER! Um, I said. We kissed, the Duke said. That's kinda gay, Keun said. I AM A GIRL. Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin, Keun said.
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Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?
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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.
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I'm not sure if I'm depressed. I mean, I'm not exactly sad. But I'm not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, But sometimes when I'm alone at night I forget how to feel.
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Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.
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The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.
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If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.
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I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
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I have guts, just not when it counts.
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I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.
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Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.
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I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?
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Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.
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Me: If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot. Mom: You don't take pot, for starters. Me: See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.
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Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.
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I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
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And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard they only need to be speaking.
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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate I had dying declarations.
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