I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
JOHN GREENWriting 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
More John Green Quotes
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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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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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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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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Crying is you, plus tears.
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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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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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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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 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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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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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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