She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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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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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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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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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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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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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
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The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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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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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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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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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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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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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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