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.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
More John Green Quotes
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You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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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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You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
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The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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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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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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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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We all use the future to escape the present.
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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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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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