You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
JOHN GREENDepression is a side effect of dying.
More John Green Quotes
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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