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 GREENI’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
More John Green Quotes
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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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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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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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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