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So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.
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A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.
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But mothers lie. It's in the job description.
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I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.
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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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The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.
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…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.
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still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?
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I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.
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March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence
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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 don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.
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Random questions are the least random of all questions.
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Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity
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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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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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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
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Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.
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Margo says, I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.
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Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson
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