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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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It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.
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And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.
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Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.
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He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.
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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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Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.
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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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At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.
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I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!
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...And in freedom, most people find sin.
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I make a gesture that is intended to convey, Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like, and probably actually conveys, Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.
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JP shouted, TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER! Um, I said. We kissed, the Duke said. That's kinda gay, Keun said. I AM A GIRL. Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin, Keun said.
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Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.
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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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And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.
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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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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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I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
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