Without pain, how could we know joy?
JOHN GREENThat’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.
More John Green Quotes
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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
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The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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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’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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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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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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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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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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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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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.
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I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
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