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But you want to see shapes you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
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I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined.
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He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. You're so hot, I said, my hand still on his leg. I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish, he answered, still kissing me. I laughed. I have an Augustus Waters fetish, I explained.
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I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.
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Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.
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That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.
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I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.
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But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh? I nodded into his shirt. Gives you an idea how I feel about you, he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.
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I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!
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It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate I had dying declarations.
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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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He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
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You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU!
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And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge. Huh? Pudge, the Colonel said. Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.
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I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.
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She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.
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