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We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?
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But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail
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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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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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The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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You're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes me want to take you home and do unspeakable things while we watch live-action Sailor Moon videos
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Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou
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And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
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And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.
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I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.
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Random questions are the least random of all questions.
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I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.
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Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to.
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