Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
JOHN GREENMuch of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
More John Green Quotes
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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 do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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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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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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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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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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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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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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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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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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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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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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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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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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We just did an awesome job of not 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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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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