Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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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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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Crying is you, plus tears.
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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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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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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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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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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 good times and the bad times both will pass.
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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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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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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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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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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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