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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

John Green

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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Memories Pleasure Remember
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Human Leaving One Liner Scars
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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Memories Paper Town
Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it
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Alone Introvert Profession Writing
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Favourite People Story
You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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Love Survival
Depression is a side effect of dying.
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Depression Die One Liner
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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Fear Graduation Secret Weapon
We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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Book Business Done Reading Writing
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
Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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Oppression Stand
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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Book Girl Look Love Room
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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Help Hurt Universe
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
Some people have lives; some people have music.
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Live Music People
It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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Break Up Leaving World
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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Constellation Imagination Stars
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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Break Up Broken Heart Heart Privilege
You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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Love Missing People
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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Book Help Understand
The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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Future Nostalgia One Liner
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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Broken Crazy Hope One Liner Positive World
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Abundance Happen Remember
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
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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Alone Forgiveness Help Love
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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Inside Missing Pieces Thinking

You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

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