The marks humans leave are too often scars.
JOHN GREENThe measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
More John Green Quotes
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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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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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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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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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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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We all use the future to escape the present.
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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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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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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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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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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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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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