Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
JOHN GREENSome people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
More John Green Quotes
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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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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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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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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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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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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
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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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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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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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