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But you want to see shapes you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.
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The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.
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One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
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You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.
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Need is never a good basis for any relationship.
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The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.
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The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
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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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I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.
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I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.
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Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
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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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You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
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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 do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.
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He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!
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But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.
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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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Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.
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I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.
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