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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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I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.
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There's not even real *popularity* at my school. That, Coli said emphatically, is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.
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We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.
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I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.
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Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
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So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.
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You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home? No, sir, Gus said. We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.
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...And in freedom, most people find sin.
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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasnt your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.
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Also, it was a bit hopeless, he said. A bit defeatist. If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree. I don't think defeatism is honest, Dad answered. I refuse to accept that.
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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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You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.
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Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to their murderer. I certainly will not be mentioning the murderer. I don't think he warrants our attention-particularly since he so clearly wanted it.
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These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.
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