The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
JOHN GREENTalking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
More John Green Quotes
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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 can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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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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The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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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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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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