Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
JOHN GREENAs he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
More John Green Quotes
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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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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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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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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
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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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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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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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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
JOHN GREEN