It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
JOHN GREENHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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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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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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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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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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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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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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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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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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Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it
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There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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