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I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.' 'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said. 'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.
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I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.
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How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus said. 'Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.' 'So I heard,' Issac said, trying not to let it get to him. He fumbled toward Gus's hand and found only his thigh. 'I'm taken,' Gus said.
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I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.
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Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.
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One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
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That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.
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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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The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.
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Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.
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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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Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
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They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.
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