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Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.
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Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.
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You don't want romantic advice from me, you want romantic advice from Edward Cullen. I completely understand but he is completely unavailable right now and I'll tell you why. He doesn't exist.
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She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.
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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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I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'
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You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.
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I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.
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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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It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.
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They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.
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I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.
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Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.
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He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
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I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.
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So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.
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She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.
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We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
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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 came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.
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