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You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: Do you like anyone right now? - that's not the question you're asking. The question you're asking is, do you like me right now.
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It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate I had dying declarations.
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me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?
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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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Easy comfort isn't comforting
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It must be some book, she said as she knelt down next to the bed...Did that boy give it to you? She asked out of nowhere. By 'it' do you mean herpes? You are too much, Mom said, The book, Hazel. I mean the book.
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I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.
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And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
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She never liked me much, but she sure loved me
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That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
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It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.
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Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.
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Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter.
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Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.
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Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.
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We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.
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Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.
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You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.
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