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.
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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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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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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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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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 human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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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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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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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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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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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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