Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
JOHN GREENThat didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
More John Green Quotes
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Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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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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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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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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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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