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If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Augustus, I said. Really. You don't have to do this. Sure I do, he said. I found my Wish. God, you're the best, I told him. I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel, he answered.
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Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. Did you like it? His dad asked. Yup, Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life. Quick, give me a throw pillow and some thread because that needs to be an Encouragement.
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Need is never a good basis for any relationship.
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No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.
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Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.
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That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends they feel smothered it's always them and it's never you and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved it's over for them and just starting for you.
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I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.
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She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.
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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
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You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
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Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.
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It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.
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