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.
JOHN GREENGreat books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
More John Green Quotes
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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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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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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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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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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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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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 are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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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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