We all use the future to escape the present.
JOHN GREENThe future is a kind of nostalgia.
More John Green Quotes
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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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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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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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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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There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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