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Need is never a good basis for any relationship.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.
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At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.
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me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?
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At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.
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I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.
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There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.
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Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.
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Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe.
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You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
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If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.
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Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.
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Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper
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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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Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.
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Ma'am, Augustus said, nodding toward her, Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.
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Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood.
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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And I don’t blame him. I don’t even trust me.
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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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