That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
More John Green Quotes
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
JOHN GREEN