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Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

John Green

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.
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My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.
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The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.
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The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
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The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.
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Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.
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We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
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You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that too much.
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People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
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Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.
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When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.
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High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.
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He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!
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That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.
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Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?
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