The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
JOHN GREENThe only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
More John Green Quotes
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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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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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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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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It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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