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Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?
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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?
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You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.
John Green
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.
John Green
You are fairly smart, I said after a while. You are fairly good at compliments, he answered.
John Green
She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.
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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
John Green
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
John Green
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.
John Green
Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.
John Green
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
John Green
... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.
John Green
I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
John Green
Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.
John Green
I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.
John Green
I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
John Green
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
John Green
Is the labyrinth living or dying?
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