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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?
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You will go to the paper towns and never come back.
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I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.
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Okay is BURSTING with sensuality
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You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.
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Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?
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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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The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.
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I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.
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I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.
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Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?
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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
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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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You are fairly smart, I said after a while. You are fairly good at compliments, he answered.
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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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I spy with my little eye a great story.
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For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.
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Books belong to their readers.
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You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home? No, sir, Gus said. We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.
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Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'.
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