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my lungs sucked at being lungs.
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
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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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No headboards were broken.
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They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more 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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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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It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.
John Green
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.
John Green
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
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I think inspiration is always around it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.
John Green
Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
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memories fall apart too.
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I don't think you're dying, I said. I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.
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He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.
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And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.
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A paper town for a paper girl.
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Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
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And how are you feeling? asked Patrick.Oh, I'm grand. Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.
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But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.
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