What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
JOHN GREENI don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
More John Green Quotes
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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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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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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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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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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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 ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
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