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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.

John Green

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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Alive Inspirational Remarkable Try
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.
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Book Reading
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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Battle Mischief War Win
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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Fear Graduation Secret Weapon
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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Choose Compose Infinite Live Moments Spend
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.
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Book Forever Love Reading Wait
It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Expectation Look People Stupidity
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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Memories Paper Town
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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Love One Liner Promise
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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Believe Couple Person Special
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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Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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Humour Run Smoke
Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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Cry Devote Life Love People Try
I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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Couple Friendship Idiot Need
God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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God Karma
What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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Life People
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Factory World
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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Alcohol Brain Damage Drunk Extreme Happiness
There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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Fault Stars
I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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Die Inspirational One Liner Smart Young
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Character Grief One Liner Reveal
We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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Book Business Done Reading Writing
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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Constellation Imagination Stars
Everything that comes together falls apart.
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Break Up Broken Heart Fall One Liner Togetherness
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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Father
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.
JOHN GREEN

Book Die Life Sentence Truth

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