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I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I have an Augustus Waters fetish.
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I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.
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Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.
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He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.
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At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.
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Something invisible snapped inside her.
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I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.
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