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I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Bro, it's dark. You can't go to a strange building with a mysterious address in the dark. Haven't you ever seen a horror movie?
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So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?” “Yeah,” I said. “Sucks,” he said. “I’m a lot better now,” I said. “I’m going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus.” “I know. I’m pretty well up-to-date on your life, because Gus never. Talks. About. Anything. Else.
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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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He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her
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She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.
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Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.
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but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers
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People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.
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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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weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.
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Also, it was a bit hopeless, he said. A bit defeatist. If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree. I don't think defeatism is honest, Dad answered. I refuse to accept that.
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We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.
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I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
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We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?
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I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.
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One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: Do you like anyone right now? - that's not the question you're asking. The question you're asking is, do you like me right now.
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Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
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Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.
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