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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.
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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.
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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
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Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich
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Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?
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The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
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Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.
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Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.
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Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.
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...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
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Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.
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He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
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10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.
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I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't.
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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 didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.
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She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.
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Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
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