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The world is not a wish-granting factory.

John Green

When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
JOHN GREEN

Break Break Up Prevention Togetherness
What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN

Life People
I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
JOHN GREEN

Calculation Determination Insult Shit
You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
JOHN GREEN

Love Survival
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
JOHN GREEN

Couple Fall Fall In Love Love Reading Sleep
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
JOHN GREEN

Alcohol Brain Damage Drunk Extreme Happiness
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.
JOHN GREEN

Choice Choose Hurt Satisfaction World
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREEN

Busy Ideas Yourself
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
JOHN GREEN

Broken Crazy Hope One Liner Positive World
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
JOHN GREEN

Human Leaving One Liner Scars
The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
JOHN GREEN

Assure Distant Feeling Future Past
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
JOHN GREEN

Book Help Understand
Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
JOHN GREEN

Gift People Responsiblity
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
JOHN GREEN

Algorithm Book Invention
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
JOHN GREEN

Alone Forgiveness Help Love
The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
JOHN GREEN

Human Powerful Tongue

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

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