It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
JOHN GREENSometimes, 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.
More John Green Quotes
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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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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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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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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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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 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.
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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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