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Easy comfort isn't comforting
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.
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We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait.
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They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.
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So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.
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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 know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.
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It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.
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The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.
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As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.
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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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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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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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And I don’t blame him. I don’t even trust me.
John Green
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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