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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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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.
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I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.
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They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.
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That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
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I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.
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