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Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

John Green

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Everything's uglier close up, she said. Not you, I answered.
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the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate
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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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Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?
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I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.
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I do love you and what else matters but that
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