Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
JOHN GREENSome people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
More John Green Quotes
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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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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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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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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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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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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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