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.
JOHN GREENYour responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
More John Green Quotes
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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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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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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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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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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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Crying is you, plus tears.
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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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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Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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