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I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.
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You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
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I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.
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I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
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Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.
John Green
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.
John Green
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
John Green
I am a giant squid of anger.
John Green
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.
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My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.
John Green
Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.
John Green
All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of learned helplessness without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of learned blindness ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.
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I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.
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The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread! he screamed. CHICKEN! the crowd responded. Rice! PEAS! And then, all together: WE GOT HIGHER SATs. Hip Hip Hip Hooray! the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!
John Green
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.
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There is no try. There is only do.
John Green
If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
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In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.
John Green
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.
John Green
