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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?
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Is the labyrinth living or dying?
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.
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I love you present tense.
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She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.
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That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
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You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
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That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.
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You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
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When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.
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We are now as I wished we could be then.
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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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We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
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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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Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.
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I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy
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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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The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
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